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[email protected] Famed for his portraits of Hollywood movie stars of the Audiences for this exhibition will have grown up with late 1920s to 40s, George Hurrell created the photographic stars such as David Bowie, Tracey Ullman, Fleetwood lexicon for our contemporary standards of the feminine Mac, The Pet Shop Boys, Freddie Mercury, David and the masculine, and the represetation of desire Byrne and the Talking Heads, Grace Jones, Brooke and beauty. Shields, Natalie Cole, Jerry Hall, Bianca Jagger, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, and Joan Collins. Through After WWII, however, Hollywood shifted away from these celebrities they can connect to their 1920s through Hurrell’s style as it sought to depict their movie stars in 40s counterparts from Hollywood such as Joan Crawford, a grittier light. By the 1970s Hurrell’s heroic style was Marlene Dietrich, Johnny Weissmuller, Jane Wyman, rediscovered and returned to vogue and Hurrell, in his Humphrey Bogart, Jean Harlow, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, seventies, returned to his studio to photograph a new Clark Gable, Marion Davies, Greta Garbo, Katharine generation of celebrities. Hepburn, and, later, Elizabeth Taylor and Rita Hayworth. This exhibition examines contemporary identity and the For the first time ever this exhibition will present a changing nature of representation by comparing Hurrell’s large number of Hurrell’s colour photographs. These depiction of Hollywood’s golden-era celebrities with his images are visualised in a style directly comparable to the portrayal of the stars of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s.