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Film Journal
From American photojournalist Eve Arnold, an intimate and candid look behind the scenes of some of the greatest movies ever made.
In between her documentary photography, Eve Arnold spent almost fifty years photographing movie stars on location. From 1959, beginning with Joan Crawford's last major film, The Best of Everything , and ending in 1984 with Steaming , Joseph Losey's final picture, she worked behind the scenes on forty films, including The Misfits and Alien , capturing such legends as Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren, Paul Newman, Isabella Rossellini, Marlon Brando and Anjelica Huston.
Film Journal is a collection of these images, over 120 photographs in all, along with the notes and impressions made by Arnold during the shoots. As her camera revealed the personalities beneath the stars, Arnold also became privy to their personal lives. In Film Journal she writes memorably about the tensions and dramas on the film set, of Crawford sneaking in vodka in a Pepsi cooler, Dietrich recounting her night with JFK.
With eighty previously unpublished photographs and including many old favorites, Film Journal is a classic from one of the twentieth century's most distinguished photographers.
In between her documentary photography, Eve Arnold spent almost fifty years photographing movie stars on location. From 1959, beginning with Joan Crawford's last major film, The Best of Everything , and ending in 1984 with Steaming , Joseph Losey's final picture, she worked behind the scenes on forty films, including The Misfits and Alien , capturing such legends as Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren, Paul Newman, Isabella Rossellini, Marlon Brando and Anjelica Huston.
Film Journal is a collection of these images, over 120 photographs in all, along with the notes and impressions made by Arnold during the shoots. As her camera revealed the personalities beneath the stars, Arnold also became privy to their personal lives. In Film Journal she writes memorably about the tensions and dramas on the film set, of Crawford sneaking in vodka in a Pepsi cooler, Dietrich recounting her night with JFK.
With eighty previously unpublished photographs and including many old favorites, Film Journal is a classic from one of the twentieth century's most distinguished photographers.
256 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1, 2002
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June 7, 2023
Great fun to read about what it’s like to work with these stars. Not all of her work is photographically outstanding but still serves an important purpose back in the day. As well I can’t imagine being a woman in this time was easy.
November 5, 2010
Wonderful book to have for dipping into; evocative, poignant and funny stories about Arnold's subjects. Joan Crawford, as usual, provides much drama and the heartbreaking observation that "something sad happens to the skin after fifty." No matter how Crawford tried, she couldn't keep the crazy out, and she couldn't stop losting her beauty. Excellent stories from the set of "The Misfits", too.
July 28, 2011
Great photography. Really interesting notes.
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