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Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography
28 June 2025 — 21 June 2026
On Now60+ photographers from studio staffers to Warhol reveal how pre-digital celebrity images were silhouetted, masked, and retouched for the press.
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Face Value invites us to take a close look at the celebrity-making machinery of the 20th-century Hollywood star system. For decades, film studios produced photographic portraits to promote the glamour of the actors they had under contract. This exhibition examines how these images were manipulated for public consumption in the decades before digital tools, AI technology, and social media revolutionized the process. For MoMA's founding film curator, Iris Barry,...
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© Museum of Modern Art
Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography
28 June 2025 — 21 June 2026
On Now60+ photographers from studio staffers to Warhol reveal how pre-digital celebrity images were silhouetted, masked, and retouched for the press.
From Museum of Modern Art
Face Value invites us to take a close look at the celebrity-making machinery of the 20th-century Hollywood star system. For decades, film studios produced photographic portraits to promote the glamour of the actors they had under contract. This exhibition examines how these images were manipulated for public consumption in the decades before digital tools, AI technology, and social media revolutionized the process. For MoMA's founding film curator, Iris Barry,...
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