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  Loeff’s solution to the problem opened the arena for a new kind of Hollywood photojournalist  – the ” special photographer”. Loeff retained Globe Photos’  Don Ornitz  to cover the entire production of RETURN TO PARADISE with the provision that Globe would have the right to distribute  Ornitz’ coverage to …

  The oracle replied with: “The small taming force”. But immediately afterwards with: “… the main rafter bends, the roof looks as if it might fall.” Panicked I did it once more. I know it doesn’t count, but I did it anyway. “Fifty six, the wayfarer.” It says that the …

  During the period Hollywood’s major studios were producing all the important pictures. In the mid-50s a new breed of production company loomed on the scene – the independent. Overnight a new notion of shooting on location rather than in the studio took shape. One of these independent companies was …

  And so I carry on, alternating bleak desperation to moment of irresponsible automatic briskness. I am extremely punctual to countless appointments, I choose, I decide, I impart orders, I gaze with a lens upon small scraps of fabric pinned to the cardboard pages of big albums. Around the costume …

  Studio publicity departments were kept busy in the 30s and 40s dispensing publicity shots of their stars “at work”. These were posed, rather stilted shots (considered campy today) and the editors of the emerging picture magazines soon grew tired of them. They wanted features that were more candid and …