Bonjour Tristesse (Original oversize double weight photograph from the set of the 1958 film)

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1958. Vintage oversize, double weight, borderless still photograph from the 1958 film of a stone faced David Niven and smiling Deborah Kerr water skiiing on a break from filming on the French Riviera. Based on the 1954 novel by Francoise Sagan. Shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby, with his ASMP rubber stamp and a lengthily manuscript description of the scene on the verso. Full provenance available.

After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles, photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life," "Look," and "Harper's (truncated) Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine, with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums, including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington, DC and London, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Tate Modern.

14 x 9.5. Near Fine with light edgewear. (Inventory #: 139533)