JIMMY STEWART CROSSES AT THE INTERSECTION OF HITCHCOCK & KUBRICK. WATCH

Jimmy Stewart embarks on a reluctant tour through cinema’s looking glass, cross-referencing film maestros Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick.

“The Red Drum Getaway” is the stuff of celluloid dreams –and digital nightmares.

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HOLLYWOOD FRAME BY FRAME

Looking at contact sheet is always a cinematic experience, especially when the images are classic Hollywood movies. You are looking through the photographer’s eyes as they search for the perfect shot. In the classic Hollywood era, behind-the-scenes photos were carefully vetted for marketing purposes and unapproved shots were never to be seen again.Hollywood Frame by Frame lays out hundreds of never-published photos from the sets of some of the most iconic films of the twentieth century. From Breakfast at Tiffany’s to Bus Stop and Raging Bull this book is a real treasure trove of the unseen silver screen. In the 30s, a “unit photographer” was a job on most projects to provide images for the growing media demand for celeb news. But most of the time the contact sheets were simply chucked. As photographer Bruce McBroom, who shot stills on the sets of films such as What’s Up Doc? and The Godfather Part II puts it:

“Most of Hollywood history has survived because someone dug it out of the trash.”

You can get Hollywood Frame by Frame by Princeton Architectural Press here. Good Christmas gift.

Julius Caesar with Marlon Brando, 1953

Breakfast at Tiffany’s featuring Audrey Hepburn, 1961

Rear Window with Jimmy Stewart & Grace Kelly, 1954

Raging Bull featuring Robert DeNiro, 1980

On the set of Giant with James Dean, 1956

SLIM AARONS WAS A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS

Slim Aarons moved to California after WWII and began photographing celebrities. He never used a stylist, or a makeup artist. He made his career out of what he called “photographing attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places.” Toward the end of his long life (he died in 2006 at 90) he said “I knew everyone. They would invite me to one of their parties because they knew I wouldn’t hurt them. I was one of them.” Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film, Rear Window, whose main character is a photographer played by Jimmy Stewart, was set in an apartment supposedly based on Aarons’ apartment. Staley-Wise Gallery in New York has just mounted “A Man For All Season’s” with some of Aarons most famous pictures, which just get better with the passing of time. Through June 28. Staley-Wise 560 Broadway, New York.

Marianne Faithfull, Desmond Guinness, and Mick Jagger at Castletown Mansion, Ireland, 1968

Helena Rubenstein and Prince Archil Gourielli, New York, 1950

Peggy Guggenheim at the Palazzo Venier Dei Leoni, Venice, Italy, 1978

Salvador Dali, Port Ligat, Costa Brava, 1970

Babe Paley and William Paley at their cottage in Round Hill, Jamaica, 1959

C.Z. Guest and her son Alexander at their home Villa Artemis in Palm Beach, 1955