Photography
Arnold Schwarzenegger: A Portrait
1974
Butler is offering limited edition prints for collectors. These gelatin silver prints are exhibition quality, black and white, archival photographs printed on doubleweighted paper. They are signed by George Butler and limted to no more than 50 numbered prints in each series.
Thirty-five years ago Arnold Schwarzenegger was a recent Austrian immigrant, a world champion in a sport -- bodybuilding -- that virtually guaranteed him anonymity. Yet through his friendship in the 1970's with George Butler, whose book and film, Pumping Iron, Arnold quickly became a household name. Since then, he became the highest paid movie star in the world and more recently, Governor of California.
Arnold Schwarzenegger: A Portrait splendidly illustrates and tells the story of Arnold's rapid emergence from obscurity. In 100 stunning photographs, many previously unpublished, accompanied by revealing never before disclosed anecdotes—about Arnold and his family in Austria and the untold beginnings of his emerging career -- Butler reveals the human side of this living legend. Arnold Schwarzenegger: A Portrait is a lavish tribute to a larger than life celebrity figure.
This Arnold Schwarzenegger Collection has been the subject of a one man exhibition at The International Center of Photography in New York and at other museums and galleries.