In a series of photos for The New York Times Style Magazine fashion photographer Sølve Sundsbø goes old school Hollywood Glamour Photographer. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are shot with hard shadows and stylized poses taken from the playbooks of George Hurrell and Clarence Bull.
Solve Sundsbo’s images are not usually as prosaic as these. He has a gift for mimicing other photographers and a look at some of his work shows a vast difference in style from one shoot to the next. Some images look like the glam of the 1970s while others are clearly influenced by the 1980s works of Robert Mapplethorpe.
Sølve Sundsbø is a Norwegian photographer who lives in London. His career began when four months into a course at the London College of Printing he became Nick Knight’s assistant. Now Sundsbø is a regular contributor to magazines including Pop, i-D, Dazed and Confused, Numéro, Visionaire and Vogue Nippon.
His work has grown a lot over the past few years and I hope he does more of these George Hurrell type photos. I have always wanted to open a studio that recreated Hurrell’s work myself, using the current crop of Hollywood greats shot in glorious black and white. The next best thing is seeing someone else doing it.
Solve Sundsbo does a very good job with TomKat.
