Get Still: American Silent Motion Picture Photography PDF

By David S. Shields

The luck of flicks like The Artist and Hugo recreated the beauty and magic of silent movie for contemporary audiences, lots of whom may possibly by no means have skilled a film with out sound. yet whereas the yank silent motion picture was once probably the most major renowned artwork varieties of the trendy age, it's also person who is essentially misplaced to us, as greater than 80 percentage of silent motion pictures have disappeared, the sufferers of age, catastrophe, and overlook. We now find out about lots of those cinematic masterpieces in basic terms from the collections of nonetheless photos and creation images that have been initially created for exposure and reference. shooting the sweetness, horror, and moodiness of silent movies, those photos are notable items of artwork of their personal correct. within the first background of nonetheless digicam paintings generated via the yank silent movie undefined, David S. Shields chronicles the evolution of silent movie aesthetics, glamour, and exposure, and gives remarkable perception into this influential physique of well known imagery.

Exploring the paintings of over sixty digicam artists, Still recovers the tales of the photographers who descended on early Hollywood and the celebrities and starlets who sat for them among 1908 and 1928. concentrating on the main culturally influential varieties of photographs—the performer portrait and the scene still—Shields follows photographers akin to Albert Witzel and W. F. Seely as they devised the poses that newspapers and magazines might convey to americans, who mimicked the sultry stares and unsafe glances of silent stars. He uncovers scene pictures of unparalleled splendor—visions that might ignite the preferred mind's eye. And he information how nonetheless pictures replaced the movie undefined, whose becoming preoccupation with artistry in imagery brought on administrators and stars to rent celebrated degree photographers and remodeled cameramen into bankable names.

Reproducing over 100 and fifty of those stunning black-and-white photos, Still brings to lifestyles a whole long-lost visible tradition century later nonetheless has the facility to enchant.

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