"Movie-Set" is the name of a series of 233 pictures that Charles Eames took during years on the film sets and the natural settings chosen by his friend, the director Billy Wilder ("Some Like it Hot", "Seven Years Itch", …) for his own movies. Armed with his trusty camera, Charles was continuously taking photographs of very high pictorial quality. The photos explores the backstage, movie-sets, extras, cameraman, make-up artists, etc. of Hollywood productions. In some photos, you will recognize Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart in Sabrina, or young Kirk Douglas in "Ace in the Hole", Wilder's own favorite movie.
In the work of the Eames, photography is an art in its own right. Above all, for the Eames, life, cinema and design conjoins in photography.
Ph. Courtesy: eamesoffice.com
