made in hollywood exhibition
Alfred Hitchcock with MGM lion 
Clarence Sinclair Bull 
MGM 1958 
"MADE IN HOLLYWOOD: Photographs from the John Kobal Foundation", which opened at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California on July 11th and runs there through October 12, 2008, is drawn from the archive of the John Kobal Foundation. This exhibition focuses on the stars, the sets and the scenes created by the American film industry and captured by the most important photographers who worked in the Hollywood Studios from 1920-1960.

From the silent era through the end of the studio system in the late 1950s, these camera artists captured and created the magic that Hollywood symbolized. Featuring more than 90 images, Made in Hollywood offers a glimpse into the world of fantasy, glamour and perfection that the image makers produced and which have ensured their names are etched into the pantheon of fine art photography.

This exhibition marks the first time many of these vintage prints have ever been put on display. After Santa Barbara, it will then travel through the United States and Europe finishing its tour at the National Portrait Gallery, London from mid July to mid October 2011.



Donald Biddle Keyes
for 'Manslaughter'
Paramount Pictures 1922
 Lansing Brown
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
1925
 Unidentified photographer
for 'The Gold Rush'
United Artists 1925
Eugene Robert Richee
Anna May Wong (circa 1925)
 Ernest A. Bachrach
Gloria Swanson for 'The Humming Bird'
Paramount Pictures 1924
MGM 1933
 George Hurrell
Jean Harlow
MGM 1933
George Hurrell
Joan Crawford & Wallace Beery for 'Grand Hotel'
MGM 1932
 Ted Allan
Marx Brothers for 'A Day At The Races'
MGM 1937
 George Hurrell
Clark Gable and Joan Crawford for 'Dancing Lady'
MGM 1933
George Hurrell
Joan Crawford
MGM 1934
 attributed to Fred Parrish
Vivien Leigh for 'Gone With The Wind'
MGM 1939
 Robert Coburn
Rita Hayworth for 'Gilda'
Columbia Pictures 1946
Clarence Sinclair Bull
Elizabeth Taylor
MGM 1948
 Clarence Sinclair Bull
Hedy Lamarr
MGM circa 1940
 Ernest Bachrach
Ingrid Bergman
RKO 1941
Clarence Sinclair Bull
Alfred Hitchcock with the MGM Lion
MGM 1958
 John Engstead
Marlon Brando for 'A Streetcar Named Desire'
Warner Brothers 1950
 Bud Fraker
Audrey Hepburn for 'Funny Face'
Paramount Pictures 1956
Unidentified photographer
Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan for 'The Kid'
Charles Chaplin Productions 1921
 Clarence Sinclair Bull
Johnny Weissmuller for 'Tarzan, the Ape Man'
MGM 1933
 Ernest Bachrach
Marilyn Monroe
RKO 1952
Otto Dyar
Elizabeth Taylor for 'National Velvet'
MGM 1944
 Ernest Bachrach
Carole Lombard for 'Vigil in the Night'
RKO 1939
 Gaston Longet
Ingrid Bergman for 'Notorious'
RKO 1946
Eugene Robert Richee
Clara Bow
Paramount Pictures 1927
 Elmer Fryer
John Payne for 'Kid Nightingale'
Warner Brothers 1939
 Bob Landry
Rita Hayworth (from portrait session for Life Magazine)
Columbia Pictures 1946
Roman Freulich
Boris Karloff for 'Frankenstein'
Universal 1931
 Alex Kahle
Charles Laughton for 'Hunchback of Notre Dame'
RKO 1939
 Alex Kahle
Gregory Peck for 'Days of Glory'
RKO 1943
Ernest Bachrach
Robert Mitchum
RKO 1946		 Clarence Sinclair Bull
Cyd Charisse for 'East Side West Side'
MGM 1949
 Clarence Sinclair Bull
Lana Turner.
MGM 1938
Kenneth Alexander
Ronald Colman & Vilma Banky for 'Two Lovers'
Samuel Goldwyn 1928
 Attributed to Robert Coburn
Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles for 'Lady From Shanghai'
Columbia Pictures 1948
 Virgil Apger
Margaret Hamilton for 'The Wizard of Oz'
MGM 1939
 
Ernest Bachrach
Katharine Hepburn
RKO 1936
 Eugene Robert Richee
Marlene Dietrich for 'The Shanghai Express'
Paramount Pictures 1932
  
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