The Museum of Modern Art is spring cleaning of its archives for a special ode to old Hollywood. The exhibition ”Facial value: Celebrity’s press photography“Which will open June 28, 2025 and will be shown until June 21, 2026, has the best studio pictures of iconic stars such as Clara Bow, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, Elizabeth Taylor, Harry Belafonte and more.
This is the first major exhibition of Hollywood Studio Portraiture shown from the Museum Department in Film‘S Film Stills Archive since 1993. “Face Value” will contain over 200 works from 1921 to 1996, with studio photography by Joan Crawford, Louis Armstrong, Carole Lombard, Louise Brooks, Mia Farrow, Dennis Hopper, Lena Horne, Buster Keaton, Anna May Way, Anna May Way, Anna May Way, Anna May Wec, Anna Maaton, Anna Maaton, Anna Maaton, Anna Maaton, Anna Maaton, Anna Maaton, Anna May WC. Horne, Mae West West Lugosi, Carmen Miranda, Elvis Presley, Diana Ross, Spencer Tracy and Oprah Winfrey, in addition to the aforementioned stars. Historical figures such as Jackie Robinson, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Amelia Earhart, Ruby Berkley and Eleanor Roosevelt are also among the portraits.
“” Fasky value “will encourage viewers to see through the facade of glamor on how celebrity is made and exploited,” said curator Ron Magliozzi in a press release. As Moma Exhibition description says that the exhibition will “explore how these images were manipulated for public consumption through practical editing techniques long before digital tools became standard.”
The witnesses include works by more than 58 photographers, with “untouched” sincere images composed with traditional press methods in the era such as silhouetting, painting, masking, sectioning and collage. The exhibition will appear in the Titus and Morita galleries.
“Face Value” is organized by curator Magliozzi, with Katie Trainor, the film collection manager and Cara Shatzman, the collection specialist for the Ministry of Film. Film on Moma is made possible by Chanel.
The influence of late stars Bow and Keaton, both of which are included in “nominal value”, is clear in modern culture, with Taylor Swift through even With reference to media frenzy around the bow in a song dedicated to the late star. Meanwhile, Keaton becomes a posthum Biopian series with Rami Malek depicts him.
Check out the first look at the exhibition below.
