Back in June of 2025, I posted a blog about a then just opened photography exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The exhibition, "Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography," runs through June 21, 2026.
And just a couple of days ago, silent film buff Alain Groenendaal visited the exhibit and sent me this snapshot. (Alain had read my earlier blog, and was at the museum to take in a screening of The Joyless Street, directed by G.W. Pabst.) Wow, its great to see images of Louise Brooks is a museum context. Thank you Alain!
"Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography" is the first major exhibition of Hollywood studio portraiture to be drawn from the Museum’s film stills archive since 1993. On view in the Titus and Morita Galleries, the exhibition offers a revisionist look at the Department of Film’s photographic archive, examining the evolution of editorial practice before the digital age, AI technology, and social media reshaped our experience of celebrity. More about the exhibit can be found HERE.
Early Hollywood actors and actresses dominate the show. Included in "Face Value" are Clara Bow, Lon Chaney, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Bebe Daniels, Bette Davis, Marie Dressler, Douglas Fairbanks, Dorothy Gish, Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, Boris Karloff, Hedy Lamarr, Elsa Lanchester, Harold Lloyd, Bela Lugosi, Mae Murray, Nita Naldi, ZaSu Pitts, Basil Rathbone, Norma Shearer, Barbara Stanwyck, Erich von Stroheim, Gloria Stuart, Spencer Tracy, and Alice White.
Additionally, a small number of actors associated with Louise Brooks' career are included in "Face Value," such as Jean Arthur, Wallace Beery, Joan Blondell, Evelyn Brent, W.C. Fields, Laura LaPlante, Carole Lombard, Myrna Loy, Grace Moore, William Powell, and Will Rodgers.
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