Hollywood at Home. A Family Album 1950-1965
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990. 1st Edition. Quarto, publisher's tawny cloth, spine stamped in silver, ecru endpapers, original photo-illustrated dust jacket.
First edition of Hollywood photographer Sid Avery’s sole monograph. Unlike many celebrity photographers who shot highly-stylized glamor portraits of stars, Avery is best known for taking intimate snapshots of actors and actresses behind the scenes or in their everyday life. This book collects hundreds of black-and-white portraits taken for the Saturday Evening Post, Look, Colliers, and Life among other publications. Subjects include Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Kim Novak, and many more. With text by American film historian Richard Schickel. First printing with complete number row to copyright page. Unclipped dust jacket with faint sunning to spine and light rubbing and edgewear. Very good. Item #12751
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