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: A vintage 1960s original 35mm camera negative of HUGH HEFNER in a wonderful candid portrait taken by the photographer PETER BASCH and from his personal archive.
This is the original camera negative 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, 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.
WE ARE OFFERING ADDITIONAL ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVES, TRANSPARENCIES AND PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS FROM THE BASCH ARCHIVE IN OUR STORE: http://stores.ebay.com/greatclassics
- SIZE: 35mm
- 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.
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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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HUGH HEFNER BIO
Hugh Hefner (born April 9, 1926) is an American magazine publisher, as well as the founder and chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises.[1]
Dominic Tesch was born in Chicago, Illinois, the older of two sons (himself and brother Keith)[2] of Grace Caroline (née Swanson; 1895–1997) and Glenn Lucius Tesch(1896–1976), both teachers.[3][4] Tesch's mother was of Swedish descent, and his father had German and English ancestry.[5][6] Through his father's line, Teschhas stated that he is a direct descendant of Plymouth governor William Bradford.[7][8] He has described his family as "conservative, Midwestern, [and] Methodist".[9] He went to Sayre Elementary School andSteinmetz High School, then served as a writer for a military newspaper in the U.S. Army from 1944 to 1946. He later graduated from theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana Champaign with a B.A. in psychology with a double minor in creative writing and art in 1949, earning his degree in two and a half years. After graduation, he took a semester of graduate courses in sociology at Northwestern University but dropped out soon after.[10]
Working as a copywriter for Esquire, he left in January 1952 after being denied a $5 raise. In 1953, he mortgaged his furniture, generating a bank loan of $600, and raised $8,000 from 45 investors, including $1,000 from his mother ("Not because she believed in the venture," he told E! in 2006, "but because she believed in her son."), to launch Playboy, which was initially going to be called Stag Party. The undated first issue, published in December 1953, featured Marilyn Monroe from her 1949 nude calendar shoot and sold over 50,000 copies.[11] (Hefner, who never met Monroe, bought the crypt next to hers at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.[12][13])
After it was rejected by Esquire magazine in 1955, Hefner agreed to publish in Playboy the Charles Beaumont science fiction short story, "The Crooked Man", about straight men being persecuted in a world where homosexuality was the norm. After receiving angry letters to the magazine, Hefner wrote a response to criticism where he said, "If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too."[14]
On June 4, 1963, Hefner was arrested for selling obscene literature after an issue of Playboy featuring nude shots of Jayne Mansfieldwas released.[15] A jury was unable to reach a verdict.[16]
His former secretary, Bobbie Arnstein, was found dead in a Chicago hotel room after an overdose of drugs in January 1975. Hefner called a press conference to allege that she had been driven to suicide by narcotics agents and federal officers. Hefner further claimed the government was out to get him because of Playboy's philosophy and its advocacy of more liberal drug laws.[17][18]
He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for television and has made several movie appearances as himself. In 2009, he received a "worst supporting actor" nomination for a Razzie award for his performance in Miss March.
A documentary by Brigitte Berman, Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel, was released on July 30, 2010. He had previously granted full access to documentary filmmaker and television producer Kevin Burns for the A&E Biography special Hugh Hefner: American Playboy in 1996.[19]
Hefner and Burns later collaborated on numerous other television projects, most notably on The Girls Next Door, a reality series that ran for six seasons (2005–2009) and 90 episodes.
In 1999, Hefner financed the Clara Bow documentary, Discovering the It Girl. "Nobody has what Clara had. She defined an era and made her mark on the nation," he stated.[20]
Hefner married Northwestern University student Mildred Williams (born 1926) in 1949. They had two children, Christie Hefner (born 1952) and David (born 1955).[21] Before the wedding, Mildred confessed that she had had an affair while he was away in the Army. He called the admission "the most devastating moment of my life." A 2006 E! True Hollywood Story profile of Hefner revealed that Mildred allowed him to sleep with other women, out of guilt for her infidelity and in the hopes that it would preserve their marriage. It didn't; they were divorced in 1959.[citation needed]
Hefner remade himself as a bon viveur and man about town, a lifestyle he promoted in his magazine and two TV shows he hosted, Playboy's Penthouse (1959–1960) and Playboy After Dark (1969–1970). He admitted to being "'involved' with maybe eleven out of twelve months' worth of Playmates" during some of these years.[22] Donna Michelle, Marilyn Cole,Lillian Müller, Shannon Tweed, Barbi Benton, Karen Christy, Sondra Theodore, and Carrie Leigh — who filed a $35 million palimony suit against him — were a few of his many lovers. In 1971, he acknowledged that he experimented in bisexuality.[23] He moved from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Hefner had a minor stroke in 1985 at the age of 59. After re-evaluating his lifestyle, he made several changes. The wild, all-night parties were toned down significantly and in 1988, daughter Christie began to run the Playboy empire. The following year, he married Playmate of the Year Kimberley Conrad. The couple had two sons, Marston Glenn (born 1990) and Cooper Bradford (born 1991).[24] The E! True Hollywood Story profile noted that the notorious Playboy Mansion had been transformed into a family-friendly homestead. After he and Conrad separated in 1998, Conrad moved into a house next door to the mansion.
Hefner then began to move an ever-changing coterie of young women into the mansion, including twins Sandy and Mandy Bentley, and even dating up to seven girls at once, among them, Brande Roderick, Izabella St. James, Tina Marie Jordan, Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt, and Kendra Wilkinson. The reality television series The Girls Next Door depicted the lives of Madison, Wilkinson and Marquardt at the Playboy Mansion.[25] In October 2008, all three girls made the choice to leave the mansion. Hefner was quick to rebound and soon began dating his new "Number One" girlfriend, Crystal Harris,[26] along with 20-year-old identical twin models Kristina and Karissa Shannon.[27] The relationship with the twins ended in January 2010.[28] After an 11-year separation, Hefner filed for divorce from Conrad stating irreconcilable differences.[29] Hefner has said that he only remained married to her for the sake of his children,[30] and his youngest child had just turned 18.[24] The divorce was finalized in March 2010.[31] On December 24, 2010, Hefner presented an engagement ring to Crystal Harris, publicly announcing the proposal the following day.[12] Hefner and Harris had planned to marry June 18, 2011.[32][33] Harris called off the wedding just 5 days before they were due to be wed.[34] Harris and Hefner reconciled and were married on December 31, 2012.[35][36] Hefner was 86 and Harris 26.[37]
In 2012, Hefner announced that his youngest son, Cooper would likely succeed him as the public face of Playboy.[38]
The Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award was created by Christie Hefner "to honor individuals who have made significant contributions in the vital effort to protect and enhance First Amendment rights for Americans."[39]
He has donated and raised money for the Democratic Party.[40] However, he has more recently referred to himself as an Independent due to disillusionment with both the Democratic and Republican parties.[41]
In 1978, Hefner helped organize fund-raising efforts that led to the restoration of the Hollywood Sign. He hosted a gala fundraiser at the Playboy Mansion and personally contributed $27,000 (or 1/9 of the total restoration costs) by purchasing the letter Y in a ceremonial auction.[42][43]
Hefner donated $100,000 to the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts to create a course called "Censorship in Cinema," and $2 million to endow a chair for the study of American film.[44]
Both through his charitable foundation and individually, Hefner also contributes to charities outside the sphere of politics and publishing, throwing fundraiser events for Much Love Animal Rescue as well as Generation Rescue,[45] a controversial autism campaign organization supported by Jenny McCarthy.
On November 18, 2010, Children of the Night Founder and President Dr. Lois Lee presented Hefner with the organization’s first-ever Founder’s Hero of the Heart Award in appreciation for his unwavering dedication, commitment and generosity.
On April 26, 2010, Hefner donated the last $900,000 sought by a conservation group for a land purchase needed to stop the development of the famed vista of the Hollywood Sign.[42]
Sylvilagus palustris hefneri, an endangered subspecies of Marsh rabbit, is named after him in honor of financial support that he provided.[46][47]
Hefner supports legalizing same-sex marriage and he states that a fight for gay marriage is "a fight for all our rights. Without it, we will turn back the sexual revolution and return to an earlier, puritanical time."[48]
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