STAR GAZING

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The studio photographers who captured the iconic Hollywood studio shots of yesteryear were masters at creating “a fiction from a world that hovers somewhere above the rest of us masses,” says photo historian Colin Westerbeck. Jazz Age actress Louise Brooks (opposite page) certainly looked the part in 1929. This image, along with the others shown, is part of the collection of vintage photographs that Robert Dance helped the Hood Museum acquire earlier this year. Many of the photos will be part of an exhibition, Photographs from Hollywood’s Golden Era, that will run from February 12 to May 22. Dance will also join Dartmouth professor of media and film studies Mary Desjardins for a Zoom talk in May titled “Shooting Stars: Hollywood Photography from the John Kobal Foundation.”