Luv (Original oversize double weight color photograph of Jack Lemmon, Elaine May, and Peter Falk from the 1967 film)

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1967. Vintage oversize, double weight, color still photograph from the 1967 film based on the 1964 play by Murray Schisgal. Although not indicated, shot and struck by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby, with an agency stamp on the verso. Full provenance available.

After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles, photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life," "Look," and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine, with his images seen in print literally every (truncated) week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums, including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington, DC and London, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Tate Modern.

13 x 19.25 inches, mounted on board. About Near Fine with some soiling near the top edge and light edgewear overall. (Inventory #: 139540)