Bull, Clarence Sinclair. The Man Who Shot Garbo: The Hollywood Photographs of Clarence Sinclair Bull by Terence Pepper and John Kobal.

Simon and Schuster, 1989. First edition, 1st printing, ex-library with fine dust jacket from which spine labels removed, book is good+ with tape, card pocket remnant rear flyleaf, library stamp on top of text block, rear hinge split. Heavy book. 11.4 X 9.3 X 1.1 inches; 256 pages. Clarence Sinclair Bull (1896–1979) was born in Montana and studied with Western painter Charles Marion Russell. He began working in Hollywood in 1918 as a cameraman and became head of the stills department at MGM in 1924 where he remained for nearly 40 years.  Bull helped create a celebrity portraiture style that became the norm worldwide and is especially known for his portraits of Greta Garbo between 1929 and 1941. With nearly 200 photos include many of Garbo, as well as other stars such as Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Katharine Hepburn, Hedy Lamar, Gary Cooper, Elizabeth Taylor, Vivian Leigh, Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy, Ava Gardner, Johnny Weismuller, Grace Kelly, Bessie Love, Lee Velez, Edwina Booth, Conrad Nagel, Lucille Ball, Angela Lansbury, Maria Schell, Leslie Caron, Claire Bloom, Shirley MacLaine, et al.  The back of the book includes notes on the photos with brief biographies of the subjects.  Summary:

The Man Who Shot Garbo: The Hollywood Photographs of Clarence Sinclair Bull (1989), co-authored by Terence Pepper and film historian John Kobal, is a definitive retrospective and monograph celebrating the career of Clarence Sinclair Bull, the longtime head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's stills department. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London, the book features nearly 200 high-quality black-and-white portraits that chronicle the birth and height of Hollywood’s Golden Age. It highlights Bull's crucial role in shaping studio glamour and constructing star image machinery for icons like Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Katharine Hepburn, and Elizabeth Taylor.Central to the volume is Bull's legendary, exclusive 1929–1941 collaboration with Greta Garbo, detailing how his mastery of dramatic lighting, tight close-ups, and intimate compositions helped forge Garbo's enigmatic, enduring screen persona while elevating Hollywood publicity stills into recognized fine art portraiture.

Clarence Sinclair Bull (1896–1979) was an influential American portrait photographer who helped define the glamour and visual style of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Born in Montana, Bull began his career as an assistant cameraman before being hired by producer Samuel Goldwyn in the late 1910s to take publicity stills. When Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) was formed in 1924, he was named head of the studio's stills department, a role he maintained for nearly four decades until his retirement in 1961. Over the course of his career, Bull photographed thousands of Hollywood stars—including Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor, and Grace Kelly—though he is most famous for his intimate artistic collaboration with Greta Garbo, who chose him as her exclusive portrait photographer and sat for him thousands of times between 1926 and 1941.