Garbo: Portraits from Her Private Collection
by Scott Reisfield, Robert Dance, Robert Dance
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Author: Robert Dance, Scott ReisfieldEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-08-30
ISBN: 0847827240
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Rizzoli
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Book Review: A Beautiful Book
Summary: 5 Stars
64 years after her last movie, Greta Garbo is ranked highly among the top 100 movie stars of all time. Once voted the most beautiful woman who ever lived by the Guinness Book of World Records. Sometimes nicknamed The Face.
This book is a compilation of photographs from her private collection. While the dates all of the pictures were taken is not given, they appear to be from about 1923 to perhaps the late 40's or early 50's. The pictures were saved by Garbo and shared with her family.
Now as a celebration of the centinnial of her birth these have been collected together and mixed with short articles about her life. The articles are not the important part of this book. It is the photographs. Even across 80 years she comes across as beautiful and sexy. The do not have the look of so many pictures of that time. Here the hair style, the clothing, the photographic style is timeless. The quality of the printing of the photographs is absolutely first rate. This is a beautiful book.
Summary of Garbo: Portraits from Her Private Collection
Famously elusive, Greta Garbo only had her picture taken when a contract required it. She shunned publicity, kept her private life a secret, and rejected the spotlight. Though ambivalent about fame and her public image, Garbo saved all of her favorite portraits, carefully archiving original prints by Clarence Sinclair Bull, Arnold Genthe, Ruth Harriet Louise, Edward Steichen, and Cecil Beaton, among others.Published here for the first time are these portraits?impeccably reproduced in tritone, one more beautiful than the next. In addition, the book features family pictures, candid photographs, and letters previously viewed only by her closest friends and relatives.
Scott Reisfield provides an intimate portrait of his great aunt, spanning well beyond her career in the public eye?from the earliest days in Sweden when she would sneak through the back door of the theater to see actors rehearse, to her later years in New York when she traveled exclusively through back entrances, side doors, and secret elevators.
Co-author Robert Dance?s essay traces the evolution of the image of Garbo?from the ingénue of her first publicity shots to the icon that she became?while an illustrated film production history documents all the still photography and portraiture of her entire career.
Long treasured by her immediate family alone, this collection of photographs, and the essays that accompany them, form a spectacular tribute to Garbo, the woman and the myth, on the eve of her centennial.
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