Raphaël Neal, Hollywood Nightmares

Hollywood Nightmares

Raphaël Neal

Publisher
Le Bec en l'air
Year
2024
ISBN
978-2-36744-196-2
Specifications
Hardback
17 x 22 cm
152 pages
60 colour photographs
French and English
Text by Alice Zeniter
Shortlisted, Rencontres d'Arles Book Awards 2025

A series of forty-two self-portraits by the French-British photographer and film-maker Raphaël Neal, inspired by the portraits of actors and actresses of the golden age of Hollywood and European cinema from the 1930s to the 1950s, of which he is a passionate collector. Faithful to the almost liturgical aesthetic that bathed those twentieth-century icons in a glorious light, the pictures are nonetheless unsettling: something is out of place in the glamour, and the tribute turns irreverent.

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