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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Rudolph Valentino-A Hollywood Portrait
Rudolph Valentino was a star of the silver screen during the silent era. His most famous picture was The Sheik and he was often called The Latin Lover. Rudolph Valentino was a good looking fellow and he was lucky enough to work at a time when the great Hollywood Photographers were working. George Hurrell, Sinclair Bull, and many other pioneers of the Hollywood Lighting worked on the Silent Film Stars-perfecting both their techniques and the legends of stars like Rudolph Valentino. This portrait of Rudolph Valentino is classic Hollywood Glamor. The expression is serious and much of the face is…