George Hurrell was probably the most famous of the Hollywood movie studio photographers. He made photographs of stars usually using very contrasty lighting.
Not being a movie buff, if I didn’t know the subject in some of these pictures, I still knew that the person was a star. The person was obviously a star because only the stars had pictures like those. The style was unmistakable.
Hurrell had amazing lighting technique. His photography may actually be one of the reasons why I have a nice (but hot) set of Mole Richardson and LTM Pepper tungsten lights instead of modern, cool fluorescent lights. I use them in my videos and in my photography.
