Stephen Bulger Gallery

<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" id="AutoNumber2" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100%" valign="top" height="100%" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td class="pagetitle"><a href="exhibit.asp">Exhibition Page</a></td> <tr> <td class="pagetitle">Exhibitions</td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td class="artistname" align="left" valign="top">Bob Willoughby</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="artistname" align="left" valign="top"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="bodytext" align="left" valign="top"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="bodytext" width="100%"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="bodytext" width="100%"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="bodytext" align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: gray;">“Vintage <st1:City w:st="on">Hollywood</st1:City>” presents Bob<BR> Willoughby’s original vintage prints from the great classic films of the 1950s,<BR> 60s, and 70s, as well as the famous icons of <st1:place w:st="on">Hollywood</st1:place><BR> cinema. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: gray;"> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: gray;">In 1954, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Willoughby</st1:place></st1:City><BR> was assigned to photograph Judy Garland in the film <i style="">A Star Is Born.</i><span style="">  </span>He worked so<BR> well with <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Garland</st1:place></st1:City><BR> that Warner Brothers asked him to return to photograph the ‘Lose that Long<BR> Face’ sequence. This was unprecedented as he became the first<BR> ‘special’ photographer to work on what were always closed film sets. This<BR> assignment resulted in his first <i>Life Magazine </i>cover and forged a<BR> twenty-year collaboration with the publicity departments of the major studios<BR> and feature magazines of the time. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p></span><BR> <BR> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: gray;">“Vintage <st1:City w:st="on">Hollywood</st1:City>”<i><BR> </i></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: gray;">features<BR> <st1:City w:st="on">Willoughby</st1:City>’s intimate portraits of stars and<BR> directors which capture the dramatic moments of <st1:place w:st="on">Hollywood</st1:place><BR> cinema both on and off the screen.  This exhibition will include some of<BR> his famous work from the sets of <i>The Graduate, Rosemary’s Baby</i>,<i> Who's<BR> Afraid of Virginia Woolf?</i>, <em>They Shoot Horses Don't</em><em><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></em><i>They?, </i>and<i> My Fair Lady</i>.<BR> Also included are portraits of Frank Sinatra, Humphrey Bogart, Elizabeth<BR> Taylor, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, which were<BR> originally shot for prominent magazine publications of the time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: gray;"><o:p></o:p>In 2004, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Willoughby</st1:place></st1:City><BR> received the Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Still Photography for<BR> Motion Pictures.  <i>Popular Photography</i> called him "the man who<BR> virtually invented the photojournalistic motion picture still". His work<BR> is included in many permanent collections, including: The Metropolitan Museum<BR> of Art, NY; The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; The National<BR> Portrait Gallery, London, UK; The National Media Museum, Bradford, UK; The<BR> Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris; Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi,<BR> Belgium; The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Beverly Hills, CA.;<BR> The Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Tate Gallery Collection, London, and The<BR> Musée de la Photographie et de l'Image, Nice, France.<o:p></o:p></span></p><BR> <BR> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><o:p></o:p></span></p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: silver;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><font size="3"></font><o:p></o:p></span></p>      <BR> </td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </body>