Stunning work by a Hollywood great.

Louise Brooks by Eugene Robert Richee, 1930s

Adapting the style of illustrator Cole Phillips, the prominent Hollywood Golden Era photographer Eugene Robert Richee captured this stunning image of Louise Brooks at Paramount in the 1930s where his career spanned over twenty years. The Fadeaway technique emphasizes her striking profile, further accentuated by the bobbed hair style. The image was made on a monster 8″x10″ sheet film camera and the retouching was done on the original negative. There was no Photoshop back then!