MOVIES PHOTOGRAPHY

For a long time, the movies photography (photographs of actors or film scenes) was neglected by the merchants and the collectors. Neglected because regarded as out of interest by those which looked after the “vintages” prints of great photographers…

Then one day, we saw appearing in auction sales the portraits of Marlène Dietrich, Garbo, or of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean. These portraits were signed by Masters of Hollywood like Hurrell or Sinclair Bull, Halsman, Lawrence Shiller or Sanford Roth.

And the collectors understood that to have in their living room a portrait of Marilyn could bring dreams…

In France, they are the great movies photographs which revealed Raymond Voinquel or Roger Corbeau.
One seeks the film photographs such as "La Belle et la Bète , Les Enfants du Paradis, Le jour se lève, la Bête Humaine, Pépé le Moko, Marius" for their portraits of Jean Gabin, Arletty, Jean Marais, Raimu, etc…

One discovers also an interest for the Sixties and the New Wave. There are the photographs of Bardot and Jeanne Moreau who should be found as Alain Delon and Belmondo.
The films of Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut are also very demanded because these prints have more than 40 years and become rare.

The Italian cinema is also very in vogue: ClaudiaCardinale, Sophia Loren and Silvana Mangano are with Antonioni and Fellini the subjects which like.

But in Cinema as in Photographt, you must first buy according to your emotions, but never forget for movies photographs : a beautiful photograph of a small film will be always better than a bad photograph of a blockbuster !