New York to Hollywood: The Photography of Karl Struss

New York to Hollywood: The Photography of Karl Struss by Yochelson, Bonnie. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780826316387.

Karl Struss (1886-1981) was a master of both still and motion picture photography. A native of New York City, he first studied photography with Clarence White and soon mastered the tenets of Pictorialism. Alfred Stieglitz featured his work in a 1910 exhibition and a 1912 issue of Camera Work. Struss was also a pioneering commercial photographer, one of the first to produce photographs for magazine illustration. After enlisting in the army during World War I, he decided not to return to New York but instead headed west, to Hollywood, where he began a new career in film, making movie stills and publicity portraits and then doing motion picture photography. His pictorial talents earned him the first Academy Award for cinematography for Sunrise (1927). New York to Hollywood surveys this consummate artists long career with the camera. John and Susan Edwards Harvith, who rediscovered Strusss pictorialist work in the 1970s and interviewed him at length in his later years, round out the portrait of both the man and the artist.