PETER BASCH PHOTOGRAPHY
PROVENANCE: The image offered in this listing comes directly from the personal archived library of PETER BASCH who was a celebrity and artistic nude Playboy photographer during the 1940s through the 1970s. Mr. Basch was a master in glamour and nude fine art photography having authored many books on the subject. In addition to photographer signed and/or stamped photographic images, we are only offering 100% guaranteed original camera images (B&W negatives and color transparencies) which have been stored away since he produced his first work. Many of the original camera film images (negatives and transparencies) have never been seen before and are one of a kind. Others have been published in the world's top celebrity and men's magazines. The rediscovery of the mastery of Peter Basch will reveal his respect and passion for photographing the world's top celebrities and most beautiful women such as BETTIE PAGE, JAYNE MANSFIELD, GRACE KELLY, SOPHIA LOREN, MARLON BRANDO, JANE FONDA, BRIGITTE BARDOT, ANITA EKBERG, FEDERICO FELLINI, URSULA ANDRESS, and many more. Please see a bio and additional notes on Peter Basch below .
DESCRIPTION: Vintage 1950s original 2 1/4" camera negative of slender figure model B. WRIGHT posing nude for the photographer PETER BASCH and from his personal archive.
This is the original negative (film) that was in the camera at the time of the photo shoot and is therefore the only one of its kind in existence. (Please note this listing is for a camera negative, not a photograph. The scan is of its positive view.)
RIGHTS: The PETER BASCH FAMILY TRUST is the sole and exclusive copyright owner of the listed image(s). No rights are included in this offering.
- SIZE: 2 1/4"
- TONE: B&W
- CONDITION: Very Fine.
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CONDITION GRADING
Excellent: Very nearly pristine, with no more than trivial flaws.
Very Fine: One or two minor defects and only the slightest handling wear.
Fine: Minor flaws, with slight handling or surface flaws.
Very Good: Slight scuffing, rippling, minor surface impressions.
Good: Visibly used with small areas of wear, which may include surface impressions and spotting.
Fair: Visibly damaged with extensive wear.
SHIPPING TERMS - I ship all items using, what I call, triple protection packing. The photos are inserted into a display bag with a white board, then packed in between thick packaging boards and lastly wrapped with plastic film for weather protection before being placed into the shipping envelope.
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PETER BASCH (1921-2004) was a German/American glamour photographer who captured thousands of images of the most prominent stars of the 50s and 60s. Peter Basch was born in Berlin, Germany, the only child of Felix Basch and Grete Basch-Freund, both prominent theater and film personalities of the German-speaking world. In 1933 the family came to New York due to fears of rising anti-Jewish sentiment and laws in Germany. The family had US citizenship because Felix's father, Arthur Basch, was a wine trader who lived in San Francisco. After moving back to Germany, Arthur Basch kept his American citizenship, and passed it to his children and, thence, to his grandchildren. When the Basch family arrived in New York in 1933, they opened a restaurant on Central Park South in the Navarro Hotel. The restaurant, Gretel's Viennese, became a hangout for the Austrian expatriate community. Peter Basch had his first job there as a waiter. While in New York, Basch attended the De Witt Clinton High School. The family moved to Los Angeles to assist in Basch's father's career, during which time Basch went to school in England. Upon returning to the United States, Basch joined the Army. He was mobilized in the US Army Air Forces' First Motion Picture Unit, where he worked as a script boy. After the war, he started attending UCLA and started taking photographs of young starlets working with other photographers and film studios. His mother asked him to join her back in New York after she and his father decided that Basch should be a photographer and they obtained a photography studio for their son. For over twenty years, Peter Basch had a successful career as a magazine photographer. He was known for his images of celebrities, artists, dancers, actors, starlets, and glamour-girls in America and Europe. His photos appeared in many major magazines such as Life, Look and Playboy.The Peter Basch Collection includes iconic images of all the major midcentury stars, from Europe and America. These masterful images are a window onto a time we cannot forget, when movie stars stepped out of the studio’s control, and we began to see these larger-than-life performers as full, three-dimensional personalities. Basch’s images capture the heart and spirit of these glamorous performers. Taking pictures in natural light, out in the world, we see these stars as full human beings, not the carefully made-up, studio-approved icons of oldfashioned Hollywood. Basch was able to capture the moments of a human being’s spirit, their mercurial reactions, all the facets that made these magnetic individuals the stars they were. Basch authored and co-authored a number of books containing his photographs including: Candid Photography (1958 with Peter Gowland Basch and Don Ornitz Basch) Peter Basch's Glamour Photography (A Fawcett How-To Book) (1958) Peter Basch photographs beauties of the world (1958) Camera in Rome (1963 with Nathan and Simon Basch) Peter Basch Photographs 100 Famous Beauties (1965) The nude as form & figure (1966) Put a Girl in Your Pocket: The Artful Camera of Peter Basch (1969) Peter Basch's Guide to Figure Photography (1975 with Jack Rey)
Thoughts on Peter Basch by his daughter: "My Father, Peter Basch, saw. He looked and he saw. He taught me to see. He taught me to listen and hear. We used to play a game when I was little. He’d say, Michele, look at the street then look at me, what did you see? I would list the cars, red, black, navy; people, fat, tall, thin; children, parents; trees and plants. He would add the detail. A blue car with New York plates, a black car with New Jersey plates. The people were not just tall or small, thin or fat, they wore coats or sweaters, they laughed or were sad. The trees had leaves, were close together, the green was dark, vivid, the sun playing with the shadow.
My Father saw. He captured in his mind and on film the unexpected moment in time, the interaction between two people, the look, the thought, the breath that punctuated the decision.
My Father was one of the great romantics. He had a true love and appreciation of beauty in its purest form. We would talk about BEAUTY and her differences: natural, Hollywood, young, old and the beauty of communication, interaction, the Beauty of the moment. He recorded the breath in time on film: two ladies in Paris reading the paper, a Dachshund looking around the corner, a chair in front of the Eiffel Tower. My Father saw the thought and seized it for posterity.
My Father understood the language light speaks to shadow. He showed me how the sun plays with dark. His favorite moment was at Sunrise when the shadows were long and soft. He saw every hue from white to black and everything in between. He understood the language, taught and published books on Light and Shadow, Form and Figure.
I traveled through Europe with my Father. I was his assistant! And proud of it! I was the camera person! Changed the film, made sure the lens was clean, stood in during special poses, helped in the dark room, retouched to refine and perfect. I loved watching him talk and listen. He listened to Jane Fonda, Ursula Andress, Brigit Bardot, Fellini, Mastroiani and so many more. He listened and recorded the answer, the thought, that moment of indecision, realization and Seduction."
Film Assignments:
8½ - Fellini
Jules et Jim - Truffaut
Bijoutiers du Clair de Lune - Vadim
The Vice and the Virtue - Vadim
Fearless Vampire Killers - Polanski
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow - De Sica
Une Femme Est Une Femme Goddard
Fear - Rosselini
Cartouche - De Broca
Giant - Stevens
Anne Frank - Stevens
Guys and Dolls - Mankiewicz
Horse Soldiers - Ford
Majority of One - Leroy
Walk on the Wild Side - Dmytryk
Wild in the Streets - Spear
Leonidas - Matte
The Day the Fish Came Out - Cocayannis
The Pawnbroker - Lumet
La Verite - Clouzot
La Loi Sacree - Pabst
Baby Doll - Kazan
Summertime - Lean
The 13 Most Beautiful Girls - Warhol
The Three Sisters - Bogart
Francis of Assissi - Curtiz
The Swimmer Perry
Cape Fear
The Man Who Had Power Over Women
The Spy With The Cold Nose
Winnetou
Mata Hari
Exhibitions:
2002 Jewish Museum - Vienna Austria “Vom Grossvater vertrieben”
2002 LEICA Gallery, NYC Portrait of Al Hirschfeld
2001 National Portrait Gallery -- London Dame Elizabeth (Taylor)
2001 Fahey-Klein Gallery, LA Group Show/Great Directors
2001 Museum/City of New York, Al Hirschfeld Exhibit
2000 Museum of Modern Art, NY, Brigitte Bardot
1999 Vienna, Austria – “übersee”
1999 Stadt Museum, Munich, Germany “TWEN” exhibit
1997 Museum of the Moving Image – Grace Kelly
1996 Staley Wise Gallery, NY “Shooting Stars” – one man show
1980s Museum of Modern Art, NY, Sophia Loren LA County Museum "Masters of Starlight" (subsequently traveled to Tokyo & Kyoto, Japan) Stadt Museum, Munich, Germany “AKT” (nudes)
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SUSANNE BENTON BIO
Susanne Benton (born February 3, 1948) is an American actress known for her film roles as General Dreedle's WAC in Catch-22 (1970) and Quilla June Holmes in A Boy and His Dog (1975). During her early roles she refused to disrobe for her parts, despite the requests of her Universal Studios bosses.[1] She appeared topless in Playboy in the May 1970 issue. In 1972, she appeared in the Andy Griffith film The Strangers in 7A, credited under her birth name, Susanne Hildur. She also used that alias when appearing in Barnaby Jones a year later.
She became convinced at the age of six that she would become a major star. She also believed that she would die before she reached her 28th birthday.[2] She married James A Benton in 1966.
- Catch-22 (1970)
- Cover Me Babe (1970)
- Strangers in 7A (1972)
- Best Friends (1975)
- A Boy and His Dog (1975)
- The Last Horror Film (1982)
Courtesy of Wikipedia
