https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj George Hurrell: Celebrity Photography en-us 2020-11-13 00:02:56 UTC 2025-03-16 22:36:49 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4f7.png tt5655 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/980382274 The beginning of Hurrell's interest in studio portrait work ]]> 2020-12-02 16:10:52 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/980382274 tt5655 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/980398266 Hurrell studies painting with William Wendt (photo shown above), who becomes Hurrell’s mentor and closest friend. Hurrell focuses on painting, but also conducts photographic experiments with sunlight. ]]> 2020-12-02 16:13:45 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/980398266 tt5655 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/980414874 Mary Frances and Anne, become his first photography clients for what he called his social portraits.]]> 2020-12-02 16:17:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/980414874 tt5655 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/980491251 Hurrell moves to LA and opens his first photography studio at a live-work artist ]]> 2020-12-02 16:31:53 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/980491251 tt5655 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/980539698 Hurrell takes photo of Florence Barnes for her pilot license application. Hurrell also took some glamorous photo of her. ]]> 2020-12-02 16:41:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/980539698 tt5655 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/981351025 Hurrell starts shooting private portfolio for Ramon Novarro (photo above). In October, his second Hollywood person was Norma Shearer.  ]]> 2020-12-02 19:18:04 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/981351025 tt5655 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/981427261 A few of the privately commissioned photos of Ramon Novarro are published in the photogravure section of the LA Times, titled "Novarro with Impressions". ]]> 2020-12-02 19:35:42 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/981427261 tt5655 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/981453799 Head of MGM's publicity department, Howard Strickling  contacts Hurrell for an interview at MGM for position as portrait photographer, but he hesitates to take the offer. Then later he took the opportunity. ]]> 2020-12-02 19:42:00 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/981453799 tt5655 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/981472796 Hurrell begin working as head portrait photographer for MGM Studios. His first thing to do was to shoot starlet Hamlet Lake, who later became known as Ann Sothern. His first Hollywood star is Lon Chaney.  ]]> 2020-12-02 19:46:42 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/981472796 tt5655 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/981488285 Nude shooting studies of Gigi Parrish at Pancho Barnes' home in Laguna Beach. The photo shown is what Gigi Parrish looks like. ]]> 2020-12-02 19:50:40 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/981488285 tt5655 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/988107655 Hurrell leaves MGM after blow-up with Howard Strickling for photographing non-MGM stars on the weekend.  ]]> 2020-12-04 16:17:48 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/988107655 tt5655 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/988179787 He opens photographic studio at Hollywood and shoots freelance for all the major studios, including MGM. ]]> 2020-12-04 16:33:21 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/988179787 tt5655 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/988187226 He travels with Pancho Barnes (shown above) and Ted Cook to Mexico to shoot a series of photographs that was funded by actress Delores Del Rio. ]]> 2020-12-04 16:34:56 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/988187226 tt5655 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/988204790 Hurrell shooting with Edward Weston (shown above). ]]> 2020-12-04 16:38:27 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/988204790 tt5655 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/988222200 Hurrell starts shooting "Hurrell Girl" for Esquire Magazine. ]]> 2020-12-04 16:42:09 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/988222200 tt5655 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/992935364 Got accepted to camera union and he beings writing articles for the International Photographer.]]> 2020-12-07 05:49:23 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/992935364 tt5655 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/992944790 In Esquire magazine, Hurrell publicity and his monthly exposure resulted of Warner Bros. Hurrell closes the Hurrell Photography studio and accepts an exclusive contract with Warner Bros. as head portrait photographer.]]> 2020-12-07 05:54:52 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/992944790 tt5655 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/992951259 Hurrell resigns with Warner Bros (what Warner Bros look like shown above).  ]]> 2020-12-07 05:58:35 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/992951259 tt5655 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/992953633 Hurrell completes his build-out of his custom photography studio. He starts accepting assignments in New York and leasing studio space. ]]> 2020-12-07 05:59:46 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/992953633 tt5655 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/992964653 Cover U.S. Camera magazine with 2 articles. One is "Glamour by Hurrell" (one of Hurrell glamour photos of Marlene Detrich) and the other is "Glamour Workshop" featuring his new Rodeo Drive Studio ]]> 2020-12-07 06:05:40 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/992964653 tt5655 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/992979149 This is Hurrell website with other glamour photos of other people, but the link we attach is what Marlene Detrich looks like.  ]]> 2020-12-07 06:13:01 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/992979149 tt5655 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/992986563 Hurrell's Rodeo Drive photography studio is featured in The Architectural Forum magazine. ]]> 2020-12-07 06:16:57 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/992986563 tt5655 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/999586116 In November Hurrell got assigned to the First Motion Picture of the U.S. Army Air Force in Culver City, California. He makes training films at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City. Also later becomes a staff photographer at the Pentagon ]]> 2020-12-08 18:55:58 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/999586116 mh5774 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1006786986 Gallery photographer for Columbia Studios.]]> 2020-12-10 16:20:38 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1006786986 mh5774 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1006793480 Forms partnership with Walt Disney in Hollywood and creates Hurrell Productions. ]]> 2020-12-10 16:21:53 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1006793480 mh5774 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1006793967 Freelance stills photographer on various movies including “Planet Of The Apes,” “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” “Towering Inferno,” “All the President’s Men.”]]> 2020-12-10 16:21:59 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1006793967 mh5774 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1006794461 The borough of Manhattan, New York, declares December 5^th, 1980 as ‘George Hurrell Day.’]]> 2020-12-10 16:22:04 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1006794461 mh5774 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1006794794 A circa 1930, 9 x 12” print of Ramon Novarro as the “New Orpheus” is auctioned for $9,000 at Christie’s East, N.Y, setting a record price for a portrait by a living photographer. ]]> 2020-12-10 16:22:08 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1006794794 mh5774 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1006795119 Helmut Newton invite George Hurrell to photograph the Paris collections for the March edition of Vogue Paris.]]> 2020-12-10 16:22:12 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1006795119 mh5774 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1006795586 Continues freelance portraiture for magazines photographing Farrah Fawcett, Bette Midler, Brooks Shields, John Travolta and other stars of the New Hollywood.]]> 2020-12-10 16:22:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1006795586 mh5774 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1006796080 “The Book of Stars” by George Hurrell is published by Schirmer Art Books, featuring photographs from 1928 – 1990.]]> 2020-12-10 16:22:24 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1006796080 mh5774 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1006796434 Hurrell begins work on the TBS documentary about his life and career, “Legends In Light.”

]]> 2020-12-10 16:22:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1006796434 mh5774 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1007154838 Article “Hurrell Hollywood” is published in Pleasure magazine.]]> 2020-12-10 17:34:31 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1007154838 tt5655 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1018804158 William Wendt was a German-born American landscape painter]]> 2020-12-15 04:33:24 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1018804158 tt5655 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1018805843 He became a respectful art influencer which led him to being a founding member of the California Art Club (1909). ]]> 2020-12-15 04:34:37 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1018805843 tt5655 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1018807574 Lon Chaney was an American stage and film actor, make-up artist, director and screen writer. ]]> 2020-12-15 04:35:53 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1018807574 tt5655 https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1018813991 He was known for starring in silent horror films and for being able to use makeup to transform into different people. This earned him the name "The man of a thousand faces". ]]> 2020-12-15 04:40:20 UTC https://padlet.com/tt5655/r0m0gytlyrz3cftj/wish/1018813991