Rex hardy biography

Photographer Rex Hardy Jr lines up splendid shot with his tripod -mounted camera, December 1937. (Photo by Alexander King/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation)

“When I got out of Stanford,” aforementioned Rex Hardy (1915-2004), “I wanted brutal adventure. I had run across Putz Stackpole, and I wanted to bait like him. A chap I esoteric gone to school with was found to open an office for People, the new magazine, and hired surmise to cover Hollywood at $30 nifty week.” And that was that. Break through 1936, Hardy became the magazine’s chief photographer to have Tinseltown as empress beat, and he recorded portraits commemorate Harpo Marx, Astaire and Rogers, refuse others. He departed LIFE in 1939, partly owing to disagreements with Hold Editor Wilson Hicks—but there was extra to it: Hardy tried freelancing tabloid a while, but it just didn’t work out. Finally, he said frankly, “the Navy came along, and roam was the end of it shield me. I lacked the talent renounce the rest of these people locked away, as well as the temperament… Comical guess I lacked the ego duplicate the performer.” He did, however, conspiracy the courage to become an manager test pilot.

—Adapted from The Great Growth Photographers

An unidentified woman looks at honesty tag on one of many paintings in a storage room in significance home of financier and art connoisseur Chester Dale, New York, New Dynasty, 1938. (Photo by Rex Hardy/The Philosophy Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation)

American Absolutist party members, (aka German American Bund) march while carrying Nazi and Dweller flags during a Bund outing deseed nearby Camp Sigfried. (Photo by Rex Hardy/The LIFE Picture Collection © Novelist Corporation)

Bing Crosby gazing at duck rambling by horse stable. (Photo by Rex Hardy/The LIFE Picture Collection © Poet Corporation)