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CURRENT NEWS & UPCOMING EVENTS...
John Kobal was a pre-eminent film historian and collector of Hollywood film photography. The author of over 30 books on film and film photography, he was known for his creative and exuberant personality, as well as his voracious knowledge of the minutiae of film and photography lore. He is credited with essentially 'rediscovering' the great Hollywood Studio photographers - George Hurrell, Laszlo Willinger, Clarence Sinclair Bull, Ted Allan et al - who were employed by the movie studios to create the glamorous, iconic portraits of the most famous and intriguing stars of the day that now epitomise Hollywood. Kobal's mission in the 1970's and 80's was to reunite these forgotten artists with their original negatives and produce new prints for exhibitions he then mounted worldwide at, amongst others, Victoria & Albert Museum, London; National Portrait Gallery, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC and LA County Museum, Los Angeles. These prints, along with the original vintage prints from the studio days form the core of the John Kobal Foundation Archive that he donated to the foundation prior to his death in 1991.
GLAMOUR OF THE GODS: HOLLYWOOD PORTRAITS
This exhibition has travelled in the USA under the title MADE IN HOLLYWOOD and will now be at the following venues:
- National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (7 July - 23 October 2011)
- Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia (3 December 2011 - 12 February 2012)
An accompanying book - "GLAMOUR OF THE GODS", has been published simultaneously by leading photographic publisher Steidl, with nearly 200 rarely seen images from the foundation's archive, a forward by John's literary executor and friend, the acclaimed film and art critic John Russell Taylor, and two essays from art historian Robert Dance.
RECENT GRANTS
Natalia Calvocoressi
A grant was awarded to Natalia to help support costs of an exhibition at the Islington Arts Factory in September 2009.
Natalia's work is often created from small stories she gathers from the world around her. Not staged, but chance
happenings; somewhat removed from reality.
Simon Roberts
The grant was awarded to Simon Roberts for the making of new photographs for "We English". A show at the National Media Museum,
from March 2010. Simon's images are an intentionally lyrical rendering of a pastoral England, where he finds beauty in the mundane.
Simon Crocker, Chairman, The John Kobal Foundation, said "The John Kobal New Work Award has been established to encourage and commission new photographic work. The Foundation is delighted to have enabled a number of artists to complete a new project for the Whitechapel Gallery, with its longstanding commitment to contemporary art and the community of East London, as part of the launch of its wonderful new expansion."
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