James Stewart looks through his camera in a scene form the film 'Rear Window', 1954. ( The 1950s were the last full decade of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Hollywood filmmakers weren’t the only ones ...

For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.

For centuries, poets and philosophers have written about how phantasmagoria and spectral evocation lie at the heart of photography -- and the same is very much true of motion pictures. The earliest ...