In a series of photos for The New York Times Style Magazine fashion photographer Sølve Sundsbø goes old school Hollywood Glamour Photographer. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are shot with hard shadows and stylized poses taken from the playbooks of George Hurrell and Clarence Bull. Solve Sundsbo’s images are not usually as prosaic as these. He has a gift for mimicing other photographers and a look at some of his work shows a vast difference in style from one shoot to the next. Some images look like the glam of the 1970s while others are clearly influenced by the 1980s…
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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…