Demon Seed

Donald Cammell (director)
Dean Koontz (novel)
Robert Jaffe, Roger O. Hirson (screenwriter)
Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham (starring)

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1977. Archive of seven vintage double weight, borderless photographs from the 1977 film by special photographer Alan Pappe. Included is are four striking photographs of Julie Christie, two photographs showing Fritz Weaver and Julie Christie with "the creature," and one photograph of director Donald Cammell on the set. With the stamp of photographer Alan Pappe on the verso of each photograph.

Pappe worked as a film still and press photographer for 30 years, covering a who's who of film and music stars, including iconic images of Sharon Tate, Jimi Hendrix, and Liza Minnelli, as well as album cover for the "Grease" soundtrack album, and the interior images of Jefferson Airplane's "After Bathing at Baxter's." His 1972 "Time" magazine cover photograph of Minnelli in "Cabaret" is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.

Based on Dean Koontz 1973 novel of the same name, about a scientist who creates an artificial intelligence, which becomes obsessed with procreating with the scientist's wife.

Roughly 9.75 x 6.75 inches, slightly irregularly trimmed. Near Fine.


[Book #149031]