Tag Archives: glamour

    Hollywood has always had an easy entre into the world of social conscience and politics via money and glamour. Aided by the media, celebrities become a bridge to Middle America, making people aware of issues. Their concerns may be varied but they share the passion that drives their …

  When Richard Polak, one of Globe’s English photographers working out of its London office, mourned the lack of a studio for a glamour shoot, he was told that his California counterparts didn’t need an indoor studio. Their studio was the great outdoors. Polak looked out at the drizzling London …

  I fotografi di Globe utilizzarono queste due tecniche. Don Ortiz inventò uno “studio” portabile equipaggiato con pannelli sui quali si potevano adattare differenti decori, tanto che Frank Bez immaginò un atelier dove c’erano la possibilità di inserire tutte le luci possibili. William Claxton , Orlando, Ron Thal e William …

  Globe photographers utilized both techniques with a decided preference for location shoots. Don Ornitz created a portable studio with frames holding a variety of colorful background material so he could have the best of both worlds. Frank Bez built a studio with one entire wall of glass to allow …

  Of all the photographic coverage of Hollywood stars of the 1930s and 40s, perhaps the most representative as well as the best remembered comes under the heading of “glamour” photography. Hollywood glamour photography was exclusively about creating illusion in those days. Shot in still galleries, it paid strict attention …