Eames & Hollywood
Subtitle: selection from the movie sets collection
By: by Alexandra Midal ; photographs by Charles & Ray Eames
Contributors: Eames, Charles; Eames, Ray; Art and Design Atomium Museum
Publisher: CFC-Editions
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Bruxelles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9782875720177
Subjects: Exhibitions; Motion pictures; Pictorial works
Other titles: Eames and Hollywood
Description: 239 unknown and unpublished photographs taken by Charles Eames over the years on Billy Wilder's films settings are exhibited at ADAM for the first time ever. The audience will discover the magic behind the scene, and what means the industry of cinema. Additionally, the cinephile will also discover Wilder's film sets and play in recognizing, here, a set of Sabrina (1954), or there, the outdoor locations of A Ace in the Hole (1951). 0Designers Charles and Ray Eames always practiced photography, a facet of their work less well known than their exceptional furniture (still in production) and architecture in Santa-Monica (Cal.). But, their photographic opera, amounting to more than 750,000 images, projected on screens as media installation, far from having a merely documentary value, represent an exceptional work of art that demands to be re-discovered. Among the numerous series of photography they realized, one series entitled Movie-Sets forges the exhibition Eames & Hollywood. The series taken by Charles Eames is entirely dedicated to the film sets and the natural settings chosen by his friend, the world acclaimed film director Billy Wilder, for his own movies. Armed with his trusty camera, Charles was continuously taking photographs of very high pictorial quality. 00Exhibition: Art and Design Atomium Museum (ADAM), Brussels, Belgium (10.0.3-04.09.2016).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at ADAM, Art and Design Atomium Museum, March 10-September 4, 2016.

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