Response to hollywood black and white developing

In Whitney Stine's book "50 Years of Photographing Hollywood, The Hurrell Style," a small bit of technical info is given for each photo that is included. The film he used for most of the photos was Kodak Super-X 8x10. Late in his career he down-sized to 4x5 and used Royal Pan and eventually to 2 1/4 square using Tri-X. His key lights were usually 750 or 1000 watt spots. Though he usually photographed Joan Crawford sans makeup, a lot of the work he did in the in-house studios was of actors and actresses made up for filming. Many times he was alotted only short sessions between filming takes, so he had to work quickly with whatever he was offered. I feel that most of his best work was done in his own private studio sessions after he moved out of the in-house studios.

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