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George Hurrell Portfolio I

25 November 2013, 13:00 EST
Los Angeles

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George Hurrell Portfolio I

Los Angeles: Creative Art Images Inc., 1979. 10 gelatin silver prints, each signed and edition numbered 227/250 in ink in the margin; insert pages, including colophon and list of plates; contained in cloth-covered folding box. Taken in 1932, subjects include Greta Garbo and John Barrymore, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Rita Hayworth, Katharine Hepburn, and Loretta Young and Tyrone Power.

Hurrell is widely acknowledged today as the premier Hollywood glamour photographer. His first major subject was actor Ramon Novarro, who he met through a friend in the late 1920s. Novarro showed the photographs to Norma Shearer who scheduled her own shoot with Hurrell and convinced her husband Irving Thalberg to sign the photographer to a contract at MGM. After a few years there, Hurrell set up his own studio, and continued photographing stars for several decades to follow.
16 x 20 in.

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