Shooting Stars
2005
$164.00
CHOOSE BETWEEN A SIGNED OR AN UNSIGNED COPY
First edition of Shooting Stars by Cornel Lucas (2005)
Medium format hardback
Please note that both copies are in near fine condition
Please note that the signed copy is signed with dedication by Cornel Lucas to title page
Both copies have some minor marks to slipcases
No internal markings to books, pages clean, binding firm
About
Working first as a portraitist for British Film Studios during the 1940s and 1950s, and then as a freelance advertising and fashion photographer, Cornel Lucas has enjoyed a career at the forefront of portrait photography for over forty years. This display brings together fifty of Lucas's finest works including iconic portraits of Joan Collins, Lauren Bacall, Dirk Bogarde and Brigitte Bardot.
Cornel Lucas was born in Highbury in London on the 12 September 1920. One of eight children he had six sisters and one elder brother whose work in a film-processing laboratory provided a first introduction to the film industry. Lucas started work aged fifteen as a junior trainee and also studied photography at the Regent Street Polytechnic. During World War Two he worked at the RAF Photographic School at Farnborough before going to work at Denham Studios in 1945. An early task was assisting Cecil Beaton on a portrait session for an Alexander Korda film.
