ISBN  9783836518895

WILLOUGHBY B.- HEPBURN A. PHOTOGRAPHS


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The Tiffany princess in the little black dress An unrivaled document of one of the 20th century s touchstone beauties by one of Hollywood s greatest studio photographers. This Collector s Edition is limited to 1 000 copies numbered and signed by Bob Willoughby. "People even more than things have to be restored renewed revived reclaimed and redeemed; never throw out anyone." --Audrey Hepburn In his distinguished career as a Hollywood studio photographer Bob Willoughby took iconic photos of Marilyn Monroe Elizabeth Taylor and Jane Fonda but remains unequivocal about his favorite subject: Audrey Kathleen Ruston later Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston best known as Audrey Hepburn. Willoughby was called in to shoot the new starlet one morning shortly after she arrived in Hollywood in 1953. It was a humdrum commission for the portraitist often credited with having perfected the photojournalistic movie still but when he met the Belgian-born beauty Willoughby was enraptured. "She took my hand like...well a princess and dazzled me with that smile that God designed to melt mortal men s hearts " he recalls. As Hepburn s career soared following her Oscar-winning US debut in Roman Holiday Willoughby became a trusted friend framing her working and home life. His historic perfectionist tender photographs seek out the many facets of Hepburn s beauty and elegance as she progresses from her debut to her iconic role as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany s--in which she wears the original "little black dress" by Hubert de Givenchy--and her career high of My Fair Lady in 1963. Willoughby s studies showing her on set preparing for a scene interacting with actors and directors and returning to her private life comprise one of photography s great platonic love affairs and an unrivalled record of one of the 20th century s touchstone beauties.


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