Right here’s one thing to tide us over till Karlie Kloss and husband Josh Kushner launch their deliberate reboot of Life journal. On Aug. 27, Taschen’s Life. Hollywood can be obtainable for buy — a shocking compendium of greater than 600 Tinseltown photos, fastidiously chosen from the seminal pictures journal’s archives and spanning the trade’s Golden Age (1936-72).
Vital for Hollywood historical past buffs, it’s a two-volume blockbuster that traces the rise of the movie enterprise, intertwined with Life’s personal cultural ascendancy. (Earlier than the introduction of tv, Life served as a window to the world for Individuals, one in three of whom had been readers.) Life’s first film star cowl was Jean Harlow in 1937. It then ran greater than 200 Hollywood-related covers till 1972, most of that are featured within the e-book, which incorporates introductory texts by pictures critic Lucy Sante, captions by movie historian Justin Humphreys and the work of greater than 70 legendary Life photographers, amongst them Alfred Eisenstaedt and Margaret Bourke-White capturing the likes of Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Clark Gable, Steve McQueen, Sophia Loren, Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Poitier, Paul Newman, Jane Fonda and Brigitte Bardot of their pure habitats: at Oscar ceremonies, on soundstages and lounging round glamorous filming places throughout the globe. Value of the e-book is $250.
Marilyn Monroe attended by a “flock of fixers,” as Life captioned it, whereas filming 1960’s Let’s Make Love.
John Bryson, MGM Studios, 1960. © Getty Pictures
Jayne Mansfiield in her famed Pink Palace in Holmby Hills in 1960.
Allan Grant/TI Gotham, Inc. © Life Image Assortment, Meredith Operations Company
Sammy Davis Jr. on the set of 1959’s Porgy and Bess.
Gjon Mili, Samuel Goldwyn Studios, 1959. TI Gotham, Inc. © Life Image Assortment, Meredith Operations Company
This story first appeared within the August 14 problem of The Hollywood Reporter journal. Click on right here to subscribe.