‘Tight Heads’: Disarming portraits of Hollywood actors in 1970s

Everything seemed possible decades ago in Hollywood. People who went on to become stars — Stephen Spielberg and Harrison Ford — were young and experimented with new ideas. Candy Clark, a reluctant Hollywood actress who earned an Oscar nomination for American Graffiti (1973), was swept up in the scene. With her Polaroid camera, she shot candid photos of her friends and boyfriends. The latter included actor Jeff Bridges, director Nicolas Roeg, and artist Ed Ruscha. Her images are relaxed and intimate, taken in living rooms and backyards, and at parties. Clark tucked away the images in an unused bedroom in her San Fernando Valley home for years. Then recently, she showed 18 images to LA writer Sam Sweet, who published them (and reflections on what was happening at the time) in a book called