Down on Sunset

The Faces of Vintage Hollywood Boulevard

Photographer Dennis Feldman captured the poetic desperation of Hollywood hopefuls during Sunset Boulevard's grittiest days.

Courtesy Dennis Feldman

By William BootJul 19, 2015

galleries/2015/07/19/the-faces-of-vintage-hollywood-boulevard/150715-hollywood-boulevard-01_ivhkxw — In the introduction of his collection Hollywood Boulevard 1969-1972, photographer Dennis Feldman writes, “Hollywood is a nortorious heartbreaker where only a few dreams come true.” Feldman captures the grit, personality, ambition and insecurity of these Hollywood hopefuls in his stunning collection of black-and-white portraits.

“The reason that I walked that street collecting peoples’ photographs, I understood even then, in my 23 year old state, was not the hope of being a great success, but because nothing terrified me more than being a failure,” Feldman writes. “We each need to be a somebody even if only in our own imagination.”
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