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George Hurrell's Hollywood : glamour portraits 1925-1992
- Title
- George Hurrell's Hollywood : glamour portraits 1925-1992 / Mark A. Vieira.
- Author
- Vieira, Mark A., 1950-
- Publication
- Philadelphia : Running Press, [2013]
- ©2013
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | TR678 .V53 2013q Oversize | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Hurrell, George, 1904-1992
- Description
- 416 pages : illustrations; 32 cm
- Summary
- Collects more than four hundred photographs of Hollywood stars captured by George Hurrell, creator of the glamour shot, and looks at the photographer's up and down career.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Portrait.
- portraits.
- Portraits.
- Note
- "Images from the collections of Michael H. Epstein & Scott E. Schwimer and Ben S. Carbonetto."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 400-411) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / by Sharon Stone -- Southern California in the 1920s. Laguna Beach ; The Granada Shoppes and Studios ; "When my baby smiles at me" -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. More stars than there are in heaven ; Inventing the glamour portrait ; The gilded cage -- Hurrell photography. "I wish I looked like that" ; The Hurrell style ; The icons ; The patron ; The muse ; The straw boss -- Warner Bros. "Oomph!" ; Shiny wax fruit -- Rodeo Drive. The photographer as star ; The Outlaw ; Columbia Pictures -- The fall from grace. War and scandal ; The lean years ; The collectors -- Return from the ashes. The negatives ; The big hurt ; The milestone -- The living legend. The machine ; Genius and meanness ; Reflections in a lens -- Epilogue. Selected chronology ; Collecting Hurrell ; Notes to text.
- ISBN
- 9780762450398
- 0762450398
- 9780762450695 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013937706
- OCLC
- ocn826685329
- 826685329
- SCSB-1762388
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library