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MASTER of the MOVIE STILL

o capture Bob Willoughby’s work in a book is to capture exciting moments of motion picture history that a viewer can look at and study and enjoy over “ and over again.” The great Tony Curtis was speaking about the American camera-wielder who was the first “outside” photographer ever hired by the major movie studios to create images for mainstream and , inventing a new genre of photography in the process. The quote comes from , a long overdue, coffee table-worthy tribute to the pio-neering lensman from Chronicle Chroma books.

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