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Taschen’s ‘Life: Hollywood’ Book Chronicles the Golden Age of Celebrity Photojournalism
Taschen's "Life. Hollywood" compiles almost 40 years of celebrity pictures from the photography magazine's archives.
Image Credit: TI Gotham, Inc. © Life Picture Collection, Meredith Operations Corporation Wearing his trademark regalia of riding breeches and knee-high boots, the intensely driven and perfectionist’s career stretched from Hollywood’s first feature production, “The Squaw Man” in 1914, to his greatest achievement — “The Ten Commandments” in 1956. In 1939, Life reflected: “After seven years on the screen she is the veteran of 23 movies, has sung, danced, laughed, cried, worn silk and rags, ridden horses, drilled with soldiers, remained steadily a box office ace.” Photo: Alfred Eisenstaedt, Twentieth Century-Fox Studios, 1936. Image Credit: TI Gotham, Inc. © Life Picture Collection, Meredith Operations Corporation “The hysteria of each shot was a nightmare,” Hepburn wrote in “The Making of the African Queen.” “And there was always the uncertain factor of Bogie and me and whether John [Huston] thought we’d done a scene well.” Going on to become a major critical and financial success upon its release, Variety praised its “unassuming warmth and natural-ness…The story has a documentary feel without any of the detachment usually noted in that particular technique.” Photo: Eliot Elisofon, Congo, Africa, 1951.
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