Jazz Age Beauties: The Lost Collection of Ziegfeld Photographer Alfred Cheney Johnston

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Despite Prohibition, the '20s was the decade of jazz, flappers and hip flasks. While some took their vote and joined the Woman's Christian Temperance Movement, others, well, took liberties. Compiled here for the first time are more than 200 publicity stills and photos of some of America's first "It" girls—the silent film-era starlets who paved the way for the cacophony of Monroes and Madonnas to follow. Accompanying these iconic images are the stories behind them, including accounts from surviving Ziegfeld Girls,...
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Despite Prohibition, the '20s was the decade of jazz, flappers and hip flasks. While some took their vote and joined the Woman's Christian Temperance Movement, others, well, took liberties. Compiled here for the first time are more than 200 publicity stills and photos of some of America's first "It" girls—the silent film-era starlets who paved the way for the cacophony of Monroes and Madonnas to follow. Accompanying these iconic images are the stories behind them, including accounts from surviving Ziegfeld Girls, as well as ads featuring them that helped perpetuate the allure of It girl glamour. When rare and striking portraits of these women surfaced on the internet in 1995, author Robert Hudovernik began researching their source. What he discovered was the work of one of the first "star makers" identified most with the Ziegfeld Follies, Alfred Cheney Johnston. Johnston, a member of New York's famous Algonquin Round Table who photographed such celebrities as Mary Pickford, Fanny Brice, the Gish Sisters, and Louise Brooks, fell out of the spotlight with the demise of the revue. A sumptuous snapshot of an era, this book is also a look at the work of this "lost" photographer.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780789313812
  • Publisher: Rizzoli
  • Publication date: 10/17/2006
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 238,661
  • Product dimensions: 7.30 (w) x 9.43 (h) x 1.21 (d)

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Robert Hudovernik is a freelance writer, photographer and scriptwriter. He wrote and produced a documentary funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities entitled Circus Echoes on the golden age of circus entertainment during the Art Deco era.
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  • Posted May 5, 2010

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    beautiful!

    This book is amazing! Beautiful photographs from an amazing era!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 25, 2006

    Famous Ziegfeld Photographer De-mystified!

    After months of anxiously awaiting the arrival of 'Jazz Age Beauties' it was finally released by Rizzoli International in October. I find this book to be one of the most visually sumptuous photographic collections I've seen in the recent past. Fine photography officianados especially should rush out and pick up a copy of this book if they want the chance to study the full spectrum of Alfred Cheney Johnston's mastery of the glass plate negative. Immediately upon opening the book the reader is greeted in the Foreward by none other than Julie Newmar of Catwoman fame. I had no idea Ms. Newmar's mother was a Ziegfeld Girl. She was photographed by the famous Alfred Cheney Johnston during the Ziegfeld era and years later brought her beautiful teenaged daughter, Julie, to be photographed by this 'master of the camera' at his farm in Oxford, CT. After working my way through the text and the multitude of duotone images contained therein I have come away with a much clearer picture of the work of allusive photographer Alfred Cheney Johnston. I first noticed this amazing photographer's work on the internet but heretofore have been unable to find much information on the man until the release of this book. I appreciated the inclusion of the address of the definitive website on Alfred Cheney Johnston in the book. I wasted no time in checking it out. I found many offerings on the website that compliment the text and images in this fine book. Information that expands my knowledge of this incredible photographer.

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    Posted November 25, 2009

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