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Bid to win this unique vintage 1 of 12 limited edition 22" x 17" photograph along with the original 8" x 10" studio negative of Hollywood actress, Rita Hayworth.
Artist: Late Photographer George Hurrell
Title: Love Goddess Rita Hayworth
Year created: 1943
Medium: Silver premium paper/original negative
Edition: Limited Edition 1 of 12 plus original 8 x 10 studio negative
Height (inches): 22
Width (inches): 17
Depth (inches): 1
This piece is framed.
Includes a certificate of authenticity.
Description of piece:
Unique, vintage 1 of 12 limited edition 22" x 17" photograph along with the original 8" x 10" studio negative of Hollywood actress, Rita Hayworth by the late photographer George Hurrell for Colombia Pictures Studios in 1943. The press coined her the "Love Goddess" to describe Rita after she had become the most glamorous screen idol of the 1940's. The photographer, George Hurrell, is widely considered to be the most important fashion and cinema photographer's in Hollywood's history with a resume ranging from Joan Crawford to Clark Gable. Here is a chance to acquire a "one of a kind" original 8" x 10" studio negative from George Hurrell and limited edition photo of Hollywood's golden era actresses, Love Goddess Rita Hayworth.
Artist bio:
In the late 1920s, Hurrell was introduced to the actor Ramon Novarro, by Pancho Barnes, and agreed to take a series of photographs of him. Novarro was impressed with the results and showed them to the actress Norma Shearer, who was attempting to mold her wholesome image into something more glamorous and sophisticated in an attempt to land the title role in the movie The Divorcee. She asked Hurrell to photograph her in poses more provocative than her fans had seen before. After she showed these photographs to her husband, MGM production chief Irving Thalberg, Thalberg was so impressed that he signed Hurrell to a contract with MGM Studios, making him head of the portrait photography department. But in 1932, Hurrell left MGM after differences with their publicity head, and from then on until 1938 ran his own studio at 8706 Sunset Boulevard.
Throughout the decade, Hurrell photographed every star contracted to MGM, and his striking black-and-white images were used extensively in the marketing of these stars. Among the performers regularly photographed by him during these years were silent screen star Dorothy Jordan, as well as Myrna Loy, Robert Montgomery, Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell, Marion Davies, Jeanette MacDonald, Anna May Wong, Carole Lombard and Norma Shearer, who was said to have refused to allow herself to be photographed by anyone else. He also photographed Greta Garbo at a session to produce promotional material for the movie Romance. The session didn't go well and she never used him again. In the early 1940s Hurrell moved to Warner Brothers Studios photographing, among others Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino, Alexis Smith, Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney. Later in the decade he moved to Columbia Pictures where his photographs were used to help the studio build the career of Rita Hayworth.
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