{"id":62219,"date":"2011-08-21T17:13:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T16:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/?p=25194"},"modified":"2011-08-21T17:13:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T16:13:51","slug":"glamour-of-the-gods-hollywood-portraits-at-the-national-portrait-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luxsure.com\/fr\/blog\/2011\/08\/21\/glamour-of-the-gods-hollywood-portraits-at-the-national-portrait-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Le glamour des dieux - Portraits d'Hollywood \u00e0 la National Portrait Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25202\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25202\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Elizabeth_Taylor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25202\" src=\"http:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Elizabeth_Taylor-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Taylor, 1948 by Clarence Sinclair Bull \u00a9 John Kobal Foundation, 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A\u00a0few grams of\u00a0finesse and sophistication\u00a0in today&#8217;s world of overexposed insipid starlets. Nearly 70 vintage photographs spanning 40 years of Hollywood history are currently on display at the National Portrait Gallery. Of course we know that behind these perfect, god-like portraits, were\u00a0not-so-perfect lives,\u00a0scandals and\u00a0horrid stories, but looking as the polished images of\u00a0Clark Gable, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Vivien Leigh,\u00a0Audrey Hepburn, Rock Hudson, Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe\u00a0and many others instantly brings us\u00a0back into the glamour of Hollywood&#8217;s golden age, where everything\u00a0looked like\u00a0luxury, calm and voluptuousness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This unique exhibition also\u00a0highlights the high level of control\u00a0the studios had over the images of the stars they represented, sending them all over the world to fans and magazines, and ensuring they were deeply infused with some sort of mystique, making the actors look like modern gods carrying without fail the mythology of Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Most of the photographs on display are vintage prints from the archive of the John Kobal Foundation. John Kobal started collecting film photographs in the 1950s,\u00a0and\u00a0as\u00a0he sought to understand the role of photography in the Hollywood legend, his interest rapidly shifted to the photographers behind the portraits.\u00a0His archive work has been internationally\u00a0recognized over the years, and\u00a0he played for sure a major role in the revival of interest in the great Hollywood portrait photographers&#8217; work.\u00a0\u00a0Film critic Donald Lyons once\u00a0said: <em>&#8220;To me John was the Claude Levi-Strauss of glamour. He meticulously collected its thousand-and-one stories and images, and laboriously erected out of them cathedrals full of light and life and wisdom and humanity.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Laurie Guillem<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Glamour of the Gods &#8211; Hollywood Portraits\u00a0\/ National Portrait Gallery, London\u00a0\/ 7 July &#8211; 23 October 2011 \/ For further information please visit <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npg.org.uk\/glamour\"><em>www.npg.org.uk\/glamour<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quelques grammes de finesse et de sophistication dans le monde actuel des starlettes insipides surexpos\u00e9es. Pr\u00e8s de 70 photographies vintage couvrant 40 ans d'histoire d'Hollywood sont actuellement expos\u00e9es...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mode"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxsure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxsure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxsure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxsure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxsure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/luxsure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxsure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxsure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxsure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}