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- Swope discovered photography in 1936 after taking a camera along on a yacht race from Los Angeles to Honolulu. The avid sailor became fascinated with its possiblities and, upon returing home to Los Angeles, used his position as production assistant to Leland Hayward to capture behind-the-scenes images of Hollywood during its Golden Age.
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John Swope broke the mold of Hollywood's glamour shots when he burst in the scene in 1936. [10] What makes his work unique is how he used available light, shot from unusual angles, and informal portraits.
While doing his paying job, he produced his own photographs that became Camera Over Hollywood, first published in 1939 by Bennet Cerf of Random House. Swope began his energetic and revealing view of Hollywood when he was twenty-eight and had completed his book by the time he was thirty.
Jan 20, 2018 · Swope had unparalleled access to the studios, not only through his friendships with Fonda, Stewart and Logan but also via his enduring marriage to Dorothy McGuire as well as his own considerable credentials as a photographer and theatrical producer.
Jun 22, 2011 · Before Mr Swope went to Hollywood in 1936 to work as a free-lance still photographer, he had been a Washington bureaucrat, serving the Administration of President Franklin D Roosevelt for several years as director of national code compliance of the Depression-born National Recovery Administration."
Swope, as an insider who also acted, was intimate with the famous, and thus had considerable access to that world. But this was also a time when celebrities were in the local Shriner's parade, and were known to chat with the cameramen. A vintage look at a bygone era from Hollywood's past.
A Letter From Japan: The Photographs of John Swope Carolyn Peter Steidl Co-published by UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum Edited by Sherri Schottlaender. Essays by John W. Dower & John Swope . Hardcover 256 pages 226 × 264 mm 2016 ISBN 9783865212672
Sep 1, 2000 · In 1936, while working as production assistant to Leland Hayward, he took up photography and began to document life behind-the-scenes at the Hollywood studios. Heralded as a masterwork of behind-the-scenes documentary, Camera Over Hollywood was first published by Random House in 1939.
