Dance, Robert and Bruce Robertson. RUTH HARRIET LOUISE and Hollywood Glamour Photography. 288 pp., 6 color, and roughly 100 b&w photos. 4to, cloth. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press in association with Santa Barbara, Museum of Art, 2002.
This catalogue, which accompanies a travelling exhibition, captures the work of this surprisingly little-known photographer, the only woman working as a portrait photographer for the Hollywood studios in the late 1920s. The images she created distilled the glamour, excitement, and drama of the MGM artists, including Greta Garbo, Lon Chaney, John Gilbert, Joan Crawford, and Norma Shearer.