A James Dean candid photo with Ursula Andress, taken by Darlene Hammond
Silver gelatin photograph, with "Please Give Photographer Credit / Darlene Hammond" stamped on the reverse. Dean began a casual romance with Ursula Andress during the last year of his life, one which started off on a bad note. According to Andress, he left her alone on their first date to play the bongo drums at a nightclub. He eventually apologized and the two were photographed at various Hollywood events during the summer of 1955.
Provenance: the estate of Darlene Hammond.
8 x 10 in.
From the 1950s through the early 1980s, there was rarely a Hollywood event at which photographer Darlene Hammond was not present, capturing the glamorous yet candid moments of the Golden Age of Hollywood and witnessing with her lens the changes that took over Hollywood in the late 1960s and beyond. A woman ahead of her time, Darlene was one of the few female photographers during these formative years in the film industry. Darlene's work appeared in national magazines such as Life, People, The National Enquirer, and in hundreds of movie magazines from the 1950s through the '70s. Her ability to catch just the right moments in both the private and public lives of her celebrity subjects, which included Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Frank Sinatra, and every other major star of the Golden Age, makes Darlene Hammond's photographs some of the most unique and vibrant in Hollywood history.
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Silver gelatin photograph, with "Please Give Photographer Credit / Darlene Hammond" stamped on the reverse. Dean began a casual romance with Ursula Andress during the last year of his life, one which started off on a bad note. According to Andress, he left her alone on their first date to play the bongo drums at a nightclub. He eventually apologized and the two were photographed at various Hollywood events during the summer of 1955.
Provenance: the estate of Darlene Hammond.
8 x 10 in.
From the 1950s through the early 1980s, there was rarely a Hollywood event at which photographer Darlene Hammond was not present, capturing the glamorous yet candid moments of the Golden Age of Hollywood and witnessing with her lens the changes that took over Hollywood in the late 1960s and beyond. A woman ahead of her time, Darlene was one of the few female photographers during these formative years in the film industry. Darlene's work appeared in national magazines such as Life, People, The National Enquirer, and in hundreds of movie magazines from the 1950s through the '70s. Her ability to catch just the right moments in both the private and public lives of her celebrity subjects, which included Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Frank Sinatra, and every other major star of the Golden Age, makes Darlene Hammond's photographs some of the most unique and vibrant in Hollywood history.
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