George Hurrell, Jean Harlow, 1935. Image courtesy of the Pancho Barnes Trust Estate Archive. Copyright the Estate of George Hurrell

SANTA MONICA, CA.-The California Heritage Museum is pleased to present "Lights! Camera Glamour! The Photography of George Hurrell". As studio photographer for MGM, Warner Brothers and Columbia, Hurrell shot some of the world’s most beautiful and intriguing personalities, creating the template for the Hollywood glamour portrait. The exhibition follows his career from his arrival in Southern California as a promising young painter to his acclaim as the foremost glamour photographer of his time.

In addition to more than fifty iconic portraits, “Lights! Camera! Glamour!” features a room of nude portraits, never before seen in a museum context; a recreation of Hurrell’s studio with his camera, screen and the original boom light; a section devoted to his commercial work for magazines and record covers; and a screening area that will show the documentary film, narrated by Sharon Stone, made shortly before Hurrell’s death in 1992.

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