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 April 1958 original 35mm Kodachrome camera transparency of actor TAB HUNTER taken by photographer PETER BASCH and from his personal archive. A handsome portrait of the young actor! 

This is the original transparency that was in the camera at the time of the photo shoot and is therefore the only one of its kind in existence. Mr. Basch's photographer credit on the mount.

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: color

- CONDITION: 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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TAB HUNTER BIO

(born Arthur Andrew Kelm; July 11, 1931) is an American actor, singer, former teen idol and author who has starred in over forty major films.

Hunter was born in New York to Charles Kelm and Gertrude Gelien. His parents were German immigrants - his father Jewish and his mother Lutheran. Hunter's father was an abusive man and within a few years of his birth, his parents divorced and his mother moved with her two sons to California. She reassumed her maiden surname Gelien and changed her sons' name to that as well. As a teenager Hunter was a figure skater,^[3] competing in both singles and pairs, and a horseback rider.

He joined the Coast Guard at the age of fifteen, lying about his age to enlist. While in the Coast Guard he gained the nickname "Hollywood" for his penchant for watching movies rather than going to bars while on liberty.

In later years Hunter's mother was institutionalized and underwent shock treatments, and he supported her financially until her death.

Arthur Gelien was given the stage name "Tab Hunter" by his first agent, Henry Willson. His good looks landed him a role in the film Island of Desire opposite Linda Darnell. However, it was his co-starring role as young Marine Danny in 1955's World War II drama Battle Cry, in which he has an affair with an older woman, but ends up marrying the girl next door, that cemented his position as one of Hollywood's top young romantic leads. His other hit films include The Burning Hills with Natalie Wood, That Kind Of Woman with Sophia Loren, Gunman's Walk With Van Heflin and The Pleasure Of His Company with Debbie Reynolds He went on to star in over forty major films and became a cult star in the 1980's appearing in "Lust in the Dust", "Polyester" and "Grease 2".

In September 1955, the tabloid magazine Confidential reported Hunter's 1950 arrest for disorderly conduct. The innuendo-laced article, and a second one focusing on Rory Calhoun's prison record, were the result of a deal Henry Willson had brokered with the scandal rag in exchange for not revealing his more prominent client Rock Hudson's sexual orientation to the public. Not only was there no negative effect on Hunter's career, but a few months later he was named Most Promising New Personality in a nationwide poll sponsored by the Council of Motion Picture Organizations. In 1956 he received 62,000 Valentines. Hunter, James Dean and Natalie Wood were the last of the actors placed under exclusive studio contract to Warner Bros.

Hunter had a 1957 hit record with the song "Young Love", which was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for six weeks and became one of the larger hits of the Rock n' Roll era. . He also had the hit "Ninety-Nine Ways", which peaked at #11 in the chart. His success prompted Jack Warner to enforce the actor's contract with the Warner Bros. studio by banning Dot Records, the label for which Hunter had recorded the single (and which was owned by rival Paramount Pictures), from releasing a follow-up album he had recorded for them. He established Warner Bros. Records specifically for Hunter.

Hunter starred in the 1958 musical film Damn Yankees, in which he played Joe Hardy of Washington D.C's American League baseball club. The film had originally been a Broadway show, but Hunter was the only one in the film version who had not appeared in the original cast. The show was based on the 1954 best-selling book The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant by Douglass Wallop. Hunter later said the filming was hellish because director George Abbott was only interested in re-creating the stage version word for word. Hunter was Warner Bros. top money grossing star from 1955 through 1959. In 1958, he sang on ABC's The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, a venue open to scores of performers in the entertainment world. On October 27, 1960, Hunter performed on NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.

Hunter's failure to win the role of Tony in the film adaptation of West Side Story prompted him to agree to star in a weekly television sitcom. On July 9, 1960, prior to the program's debut, he was arrested by Glendale, California police for allegedly beating his dog Fritz. His 11-day trial started in mid-October, a month after The Tab Hunter Show debuted on Sunday evenings on NBC. It was proved that the neighbor who initiated the charges had done so for spite when Hunter declined her repeated invitations to dinner, and he was acquitted by the jury. The Tab Hunter Show had low ratings and was hence cancelled after one season.

For a short time in the latter 1960s, Hunter settled in the south of France, where he acted in spaghetti westerns. His career was revived in the 1980s, when he starred opposite actor Divine in John Waters' Polyester (1981) and Paul Bartel's Lust in the Dust (1985). He is particularly remembered by later audiences as Mr. Stewart, the substitute teacher in Grease 2, who sang "Reproduction." Hunter had a major role in the 1988 horror film Cameron's Closet. He also wrote and starred in Dark Horse (1992).

A documentary about Tab's life called "Tab Hunter Confidential" is being developed by producers Allan Glaser, Neil Koenigsberg, and Jeffrey Schwarz of Automat Pictures.

In January 2012, Tab Hunter appeared in A.R. Gurney's play "Love Letters" at Judson Theatre Company in Pinehurst, North Carolina.

Hunter's 2006 autobiography, Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star became a national seller as did the paperback version in 2007. It is still currently in publication and was nominated for several prestigious writing awards. In the book he acknowledged his homosexuality, confirming rumors that had circulated since the height of his fame. According to William L. Hamilton of The New York Times, detailed reports about his alleged romances with very close friends Debbie Reynolds and Natalie Wood were strictly the fodder of studio publicity departments. As Wood and Hunter embarked on a well-publicized and groundless romance, promoting his apparent heterosexuality while promoting their films, insiders developed their own headline for the item: 'Natalie Wood and Tab Wouldn't'.

Hunter did become close enough with Etchika Choureau, his co-star in Lafayette Escadrille, and Joan Cohn, widow of Harry Cohn, to contemplate marriage, but thought he never could maintain a marriage and remained merely platonic friends with both women.

During Hollywood's studio era, Hunter says, life "was difficult for me, because I was living two lives at that time. A private life of my own, which I never discussed, never talked about to anyone. And then my Hollywood life, which was just trying to learn my craft and succeed..." The star emphasizes that the word 'gay' "wasn't even around in those days, and if anyone ever confronted me with it, I'd just kinda freak out. I was in total denial. I was just not comfortable in that Hollywood scene, other than the work process." "There was a lot written about my sexuality, and the press was pretty darn cruel," the actor says, but what "moviegoers wanted to hold in their hearts were the boy-next-door marines, cowboys and swoon-bait sweethearts I portrayed."

Hunter had long-term relationships with actor Anthony Perkins and champion figure skater Ronnie Robertson, before settling down with his partner of 30 years, Allan Glaser.

Hunter has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6320 Hollywood Blvd.

Filmography

• The Lawless (1950)
• Saturday Island (1952)
• Gun Belt (1953)
• The Steel Lady (1953)
• Return to Treasure Island (1954)
• Track of the Cat (1954)
• Battle Cry (1955)
• The Sea Chase (1955)
• The Burning Hills (1956)
• The Girl He Left Behind (1956)
• Lafayette Escadrille (1958)
• Gunman's Walk (1958)
• Damn Yankees (1958)
• They Came to Cordura (1959)
• That Kind of Woman (1959)
• The Pleasure of His Company (1961)
• The Golden Arrow (1962)
• Operation Bikini (1963)
• Man with Two Faces (1964)
• Ride the Wild Surf (1964)
• War-Gods of the Deep (1965)
• The Loved One (1965)
• Birds Do It (1966)
• The Fickle Finger of Fate (1967)
• Hostile Guns (1967)
• Vengeance Is My Forgiveness (1968)
• The Last Chance (1968)
• The Legion of No Return (1969)
• The Arousers (1970)
• The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
• Sweet Kill (1973)
• Timber Tramps (1975)
• Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
• The Kid From Left Field (1979)
• Polyester (1981)
• Pandemonium (1982)
• Grease 2 (1982)
• Lust in the Dust (1985)
• Grotesque (1988)
• Cameron's Closet (1989)
• Out of the Dark (1989)
• Dark Horse (1992)
• Wild Bill (1996)

(courtesy of wikipedia)