This multimedia examination of photographer and cinematographer Karl Struss celebrates his storied career and influence on American filmmaking during Hollywood’s Golden Age. Featuring archival materials, films, and over 100 photographs from the Carter’s extensive Struss Artist Archive, Moving Pictures: Karl Struss and the Rise of Hollywood highlights Struss’s innovations in image-making and unique contributions to the film industry in the early 20th century. Beginning when he left a successful career as a photographer in New York to start fresh in Los Angeles, Moving Pictures shines light on the innovative artistic approaches and techniques Struss brought to the world of moving pictures. Through behind-the-scenes footage, glamorous film stills and publicity images, and even Struss’s Oscar awarded for cinematography, the exhibition tells the story of how a fine-art photographer became one of the most influential cinematographers in Hollywood.
Moving Pictures: Karl Struss and the Rise of Hollywood
12 May – 25 August, 2024
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
3501 Camp Bowie Blvd.
Fort Worth, TX 76107
www.cartermuseum.org
Karl Struss (1886-1981); [production still]; Gelatin silver print; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
Karl Struss (1886-1981); Gloria Swanson in the Lion’s Den — Fantasy Sequence from “Male and Female”; 1919; Gelatin silver print; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas; P1983.23.171
Kenneth Alexander; Karl Struss with His Cinematography Oscar for the Film ‘Sunrise’; ca. 1929; Gelatin silver print; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas; P1983.23.185
Karl Struss (1886-1981); [production stills from the movie “Affairs of Anatol”]; 1921; Gelatin silver print; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
Karl Struss (1886-1981); [Agnes Ayres looking at mirror, “Forbidden Fruit”]; 1920; Gelatin silver print; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX; P1983.23.641
Karl Struss (1886-1981); Brooklyn Bridge, Nocturne; ca. 1912-1913; Palladium print; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX; Estate of the artist; P1983.23.75
