The world of Tosh Berman. Focusing on books, and writings by Tosh Berman.
The world of Tosh Berman. Focusing on books, and writings by Tosh Berman.
The world of Tosh Berman. Focusing on books, and writings by Tosh Berman.
Sunday, March 31, 2013
"Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through The Films of Buster Keaton
Probably one of the most obsessive books ever. John Bengtson located every location Buster Keaton shot his films on, and re-photographed it, usually at the same angle or shot of the original film. So what we have is a book that is about Keaton and how he used real locations for his classic films, plus a visual history of Los Angeles, and what that location looks like now.
It's a stunning way of looking at space and what happens to that space. Strange enough a lot of the locations haven't changed, and some of course one would never recognize it in the film. This book is an extreme tour of a region via the eyes of Keaton and much later Mr. Bengston. The amount of work he did for this book is pretty much jaw-dropping 'wow.'
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