Classic Hollywood Glamour Photos Up For Auction  

World’s Largest Collection To Be Sold For Charity

If you’re a Hollywood buff or photography enthusiast with cash to spare, you could be in for a treat this week. On March 26^th and 27^th, thousands of classic glamour photographs from Hollywood photographers like George Hurrell will be auctioned off by a respected dealer called Profiles in History, which specializes in vintage signed photographs and manuscripts, historical autographs, letters, and other guaranteed-authentic original documents. Classic photographs of movie stars from Jean Harlow to George Clooney will be available for auction to the public, but don’t expect to nab a classic photo on the cheap. The dealer expects to fetch over $20,000 for Hurrell’s iconic Vanity Fair portrait of Jean Harlow on a white bearskin rug.

In addition to vintage photographs and camera negatives from Hurrell, this largest-ever collection of glamour photos also includes 50,000 vintage prints, black-and-white and color negatives, and transparencies by legendary Hollywood photographer Harry Langdon, as well as a multitude of master prints from a wide variety of photographers including Jock Sturges, Howard Zieff, Edward Steichen, Len Prince, Mel Roberts Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Man Ray, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Cindy Sherman, and Julius Schulman. Among the auction’s highly valuable items are dozens of 8-by-10 camera negatives spanning Goerge Hurrell’s career, portraying Hollywood legends such as Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, and Rita Hayworth.

In order to facilitate worldwide live bidding via the telephone and Internet, the dealer has scanned many of the photos to digital (including the above photo of a young Diana Ross by photographer by Harry Langdon), and posted them online in PDF form. By scanning the photos to digital, the dealer hopes to reach a wider demographic of prospective buyers. The photos, which are part of the Michael H. Epstein and Scott E. Schwimer collection, are being sold to raise money for charitable organizations such as the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center.

For more information, please visit www.profilesinhistory.com.

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