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george hurrell | Time After Time george hurrell Time After Time contact Laura Sumser, Exhibitions Manager Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions 626.577.0044 | [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. photographer’s monochrome work but with the luxury of chroma adding to the emotional layering of the work. Audiences will discover multi-generational shifts in ideals of beauty, elegance and style by observing differences in body language, dress, grooming and manner over a fifty-year span. They will observe and compare Joan Crawford with Diana Ross, Humphrey Bogart with Freddie Mercury, and famous couples such as Loretta Young and Tyrone Power with Paul Fees: please inquire and Linda McCartney. They will witness paradigm shifts Number of works: approximately 100 in fame from the stars of American cinema, entertainers of Frame sizes: 40.6 x 50.8 to 60.9 x 91.4 cm the screen and stage, and the inclusion of British recording Medium: Vintage black and white photographs, artists, and, with the popularization of “body culture,” modern colour prints from original a new genre: the model. transparencies. Front cover: David Bowie, 1977 Previous pages: George Hurrell, 1930 and c.1990 Back cover: Boris Lovet-Lorski, 1935 Loretta Young and Tyrone Power, 1937 Paul and Linda McCartney, 1985 Joan Crawford, c.1932 Diana Ross, 1985 Marlene Dietrich, 1937 Grace Jones and Dolph Lundgren, 1985 Johnny Weissmuller, 1932 Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1985 Jean Harlow, 1932 Jerry Hall and Admiring Leg Man, c. 1981 Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 1933 David Bowie, 1977 Joan Crawford, 1930 Bianca Jagger, 1977 Humphrey Bogart, 1930s Freddie Mercury, 1986 Carole Lombard, 1936 Joan Collins, 1983 Ray Sharkey, 1989 Pet Shop Boys, 1990 Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, 1935 Jerry Hall, 1977 Marlene Dietrich, 1937 Aretha Franklin, 1979 William Haines, 1930 Liam Neeson, c.1982 William Haines, 1930 Harrison Ford, 1984 Joan Bennett, c.1935 Margaux Hemingway, 1976 Jackie Cooper, 1931 Drew Barrymore, c.1985 Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, 1936 Warren Beatty and Annette Bening, 1991 Jean Harlow c.1932 Michelle Pfeiffer, 1984 Jane Wyman, 1940 Brooke Shields, 1981 Jean Harlow, 1935 Natalie Cole, 1991 Katharine Hepburn, 1938 Jerry Hall, 1977 Cecil Beaton, 1930 Shannon Tweed, 1983 Elizabeth Taylor, c.1978 Tracey Ullman, 1988 Robert Montgomery, 1932 David Byrne, 1985 Anita Page, c.1935 Joan Collins, 1984 Virginia Bruce, 1940 Sharon Stone, 1992 Rita Hayworth, 1939 Carrie Leigh, 1983 Astrid Allwyn, 1932 Carrie Leigh, 1983 contact Graham Howe Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions 626.577.9696 | [email protected] george hurrell | Time After Time.