NUMBERED COPY (#10-100) OF TIGHT HEADS SIGNED BY CANDY CLARK AND ACCOMPANIED BY A 8×8 PRINT OF HARRY DEAN STANTON - LIMITED EDITION OF 30

• 136pp

• 9" x 10.5" Clothbound Hardcover

• Edited by Sam Sweet

• Essay by Sam Sweet

• Designed by Ella Gold

• 78 original Polaroid photographs taken by Candy Clark from the 1970s to early 1980s

• Private, never before-seen images of Jeff Bridges, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Hal Ashby, Timothy Leary, David Bowie, Anjelica Huston, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Robin Williams, Ed Ruscha, Ray Bradbury, Nicolas Roeg, Carrie Fisher, Teri Garr, Terry Southern, Buck Henry, Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider, John Milius, Tony Sirico, Harrison Ford, and more

Hollywood is a history of men looking at women through cameras. Never had the lens been turned on them by the ingénue. —Sam Sweet, from “Tight Heads”

When a Polaroid was taken, everyone stopped and watched it develop. It was true magic to see it happen. Instant pictures. Unheard of. —Candy Clark

After interviewing actress Candy Clark for his All Night Menu Questionnaire in 2022, writer Sam Sweet asked her for a Los Angeles memento to be posted with the piece—a keepsake of the city in the form of an object or image. Candy casually mentioned that she had some Polaroids she’d taken when she arrived in Hollywood. She promptly shared a set of 18 strikingly beautiful close-up photographs taken with her Polaroid SX-70 camera. The faces represented the major directors, actors, writers, and producers of 1970s American cinema. Beyond that, the photos reveal a wider circle of artists, writers, musicians, and singular characters from a golden time in Los Angeles.

This discovery has led to Tight Heads, a hardcover photo book of 78 images culled from her file cabinets, where they had sat unnoticed for 50 years. Looking back on the Polaroids evoked a range of memories from Candy; these remembrances are included in the book alongside her images. Taken as a whole, this collection offers a fresh and disarmingly intimate glimpse of 1970s Hollywood, a time that forever altered the movies.

When it came to photography, Candy says she always liked the descriptive words “tight heads,” which she first heard during her modeling years. It was a term for close-ups, but could just as easily be code for dear friendships or inflated egos; it might allude to secrets or resentments; or an overaccumulation of memories. It’s just right for a set of photos in which layered histories lie beneath a casual surface.

When asked why she decided to start taking photos, she says, “If Warhol could do it, why couldn’t I?” But Warhol’s Polaroids are glamorous mugshots—hard flash portraits of beautiful creatures of the night. Candy's images come from a world of car rides, living rooms, and backyards. Famous faces become softer and more intimate in her presence. Her photos offer a different kind of light.