1930s-1940s Star Glamour Portraits by George Hurrell

George Hurrell never met a light he didn’t like. His portraits are full of hot spots, strong shadows, strange blobs and imperfection-and are all amazingly strong images. George Hurrell id not just photograph his subjects the way they looked, he captured them the way we wanted to see them. George Hurrell was a genius at lighting and posing.One complaint of modern viewers is that the people in his images often seem a little too small. While not exactly on the scale of a Chinese painting where the people are small dots in one corner, the people-the stars, are often off…

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