Condition: Like New. Packed in a BOX with cardboard backing and padding. (See Photos)! Ships from California. Pages: not written on, clean, bright, odor free, fine edge. Cover: clean, bright, near fine edges, slight rubbing to corner tips. Ships same or next day (weekdays and Saturdays)! ABOUT THIS: Photographic images of celebrities have long captivated the curious and adoring. Talented photographers of the last century, including Yousuf Karsh, Annie Leibowitz, and Andy Warhol, have not only photographed the famous, but have, through thoughtful and creative com-position, given the viewer an illuminating insight into their subjects.
Now in Strauss-Peyton: Celebrity and Glamour, we get a glimpse of portrait photography in a most glamorous era—the first three decades of the twentieth century—by a collaborative team whose work has not been previously published in book form.
Photographers Benjamin Strauss and Homer Peyton, known simply as Strauss-Peyton, worked in Kansas City, Missouri. between 1908 and 1927, first photographing, then hobnobbing with the likes of Al Jolson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mary Pickford, Enrico Caruso, Douglas MacArthur. and Bette Davis, to name just a few.
Strauss-Penton: Celebrity and Glamour allows insight into the genius of two master artists working collaboratively during a fascinating period in American theater and cinema.