New York to Hollywood: The Photography of Karl Struss
Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Struss (1886-1981) was that rara avis who mastered both still photography and cinematography. Best known for his stunning camera work on F.W. Murnau's Sunrise--for which he shared the first Academy Award for cinematography in 1927--Struss was a member of Photo-Secession, an organization co-founded by Alfred Stieglitz devoted to the promotion of photography as a fine art. While Koszarski discusses Struss' contributions to the cinema, the focus of this retrospective is the artist's earlier New York pictorial work; the book is handsomely illustrated with black and white images from Struss' oeuvre, as well as his striking 1910-17 experiments in color. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Book Description Karl Struss (1886-1981) was a master of both still and motion picture photography. A native of New York City, he first studied photography with Clarence White and soon mastered the tenets of Pictorialism. Alfred Stieglitz featured his work in a 1910 exhibition and a 1912 issue of Camera Work. Struss was also a pioneering commercial photographer, one of the first to produce photographs for magazine illustration.
After enlisting in the army during World War I, he decided not to return to New York but instead headed west, to Hollywood, where he began a new career in film, making movie stills and publicity portraits and then doing motion picture photography. His pictorial talents earned him the first Academy Award for cinematography for Sunrise (1927).
New York to Hollywood surveys this consummate artist's long career with the camera. John and Susan Edwards Harvith, who rediscovered Struss's pictorialist work in the 1970s and interviewed him at length in his later years, round out the portrait of both the man and the artist. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. New York to Hollywood: The Photography of Karl Struss
New York to Hollywood: The Photography of Karl Struss,Barbara McCandless,Bonnie Yochelson,Richard Koszarski,Univ of New Mexico Pr,0826316379,1886-,Biography,Cinematographers,General,Individual Photographer,Individual Photographers And Their Work,Photo Essays,Photography,Photography, Artistic,Struss, Karl,,United States,Struss, Karl
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