He used dramatic lighting and evocative poses ... The pictures in the National Portrait Gallery’s “Star Power” portray such Hollywood luminaries as Clark Gable, Greta Garbo and Bill ...

George Hurrell, the acclaimed Hollywood portrait photographer, captures these stars in their most enchanting light. Among those featured are film icons, ranging from Jean Harlow and Bill ...

By Michael Slenske For nearly seven decades, painter Don Bachardy has lured Hollywood ... the light in the room, the sound of his brush, his intense eyes. His portraits are soulful; each stroke ...

The glamor photographers of Hollywood’s Golden Age crafted light, shadow and come-hither gazes into the heartthrob portraits of their era and prized art images of our own time. They turned movie ...

But Hollywood’s publicity stills were prosaic. Modeled after commercial portraits, they were flat, shot with a single light. Then came George Hurrell, whose portraits were refulgent, dripping ...

Hurrell had just opened his own studio on Rodeo Drive and was the most in-demand portrait photographer in Hollywood ... His innovation with boom lighting and pencil retouching created a quality ...

Clark Gable and Joan Crawford by George Hurrell, gelatin silver print, 1936. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; acquired in part through the generosity of an anonymous donor.