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