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George Hurrell's Hollywood: Glamour Portraits
This auction features the work of George Hurrell (1904 - 1992) as interpreted by his biographer Mark A. Vieira (b. 1950). Hurrell was the American photographer who created the Hollywood glamour portrait. Vieira makes archival photographic prints from vintage negatives using traditional darkroom technology. From 1929 to 1992 Hurrell was the “Rembrandt of Hollywood,” using bold contrast and seductive poses to create iconic portraits of stars such as Marlene Dietrich, Norma Shearer, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Diana Ross, and Bette Midler. His photos of Jane Russell sulking in a haystack made the unknown girl a star—without a film credit to her name. He immortalized leading male stars—both of film and music—such as Clark Gable, Harrison Ford, and Paul McCartney.
Mark A. Vieira is America's foremost expert on Hollywood glamour photography. In 1975, his darkroom work brought him to the attention of George Hurrell, who was then preparing his first book, The Hurrell Style. Vieira helped Hurrell secure images he had shot forty-five years earlier and then printed them to the artist’s specifications. Thus began Vieira’s work with the artists of the studio system, including Clarence Sinclair Bull, Laszlo Willinger, and Ted Allan. From them he learned to print the Hollywood glamour portrait. The resulting work, whether made for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Universal Studios, Twentieth Century-Fox, the Kobal Collection, or the artists themselves, has preserved this photographic idiom in archival prints of peerless quality. Vieira is the author of Hurrell's Hollywood Portraits, Cecil B. DeMille, George Hurrell's Hollywood, and twelve other books.
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