Yearly Archives: 2014
Beards of Yore
Czar Nicholas II
Queen Elizabeth II
Couple at a Tea Stand, UK, 1960s
So, you’re skeptical
Skin like peaches n’ cream
Joan Crawford – young and freckled – photo by George Hurrell
George Hurrell, my favourite movie star photographer of the Golden Age of Hollywood, worked closely with Joan Crawford through most of her long career. Later on, possibly like the 1950s, he wrote a note to her saying that this photo – out of the thousands he took of her over the decades- was his favourite because she appears so tender, vulnerable, raw, true. I’m paraphrasing something I read wherever I found this photo…
Joan Crawford – As Is and Retouched






