Still life

by Marvin Heiferman and Diane Keaton

Book Overview

Book of Photography. Photographer is Diane Keaton,the actress. The still life photos all contain live scenes, live people, animals etc., but they are nonetheless a still life. They make you feel like... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0935112162
• ISBN13: 9780935112160
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Callaway
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Stay still for stills

In the back of this book there's a very telling 1938 quote from William Eglinton, Chief of Camera and Stills for RKO: 'At the end of each scene, the director and his crew step aside for a brief moment and the still camera man poses the principals in the climax of that particular scene'. The sixty-two stills in the book are the best that Keaton and Heiferman selected from the many they looked at. I liked the idea that the contents are roughly from the end of the Second World War to the early Sixties, a particularly glossy period for Hollywood and it shows in several of the stills showing sets. Many group shots are really frozen in time photos, looking like tableaus from a waxworks others look like 'candids' with the actors totally unaware of the camera. I've had this book for some years and I still find it fascinating. The contents are just movie stills but present them in a large, square (twelve by twelve inches) beautifully designed and printed book with the use of a 200 screen on quality paper and the mundane becomes intriguing. Less is definitely more. ***FOR AN INSIDE LOOOK click 'customer images' under the cover.