Portraits of the Fifties/The Photographs of Sanford Roth
by: Roth, Sanford

Softcover. San Francisco, Mercury House, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages, b&w photographs. Sanford Roth (d. 1962) quit an executive position in 1946 to pursue photography in Paris. His wife's anecdotal essay recalls their experiences photographing figures in the arts, including Colette, Picasso, Cocteau, and Stravinsky. Roth later became photographer to the film industry and made portraits of James Dean, Ava Gardner, and dozens of others. His photographs, which appeared in Life , Paris-Match , etc., are photojournalistic and new to today's audience.