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“The most essential thing about

my style was working with

shadows to design the face in-

stead of flooding it with light.”

- George Hurrell

If you were to ask Falcon which photographers shaped and in-

fluenced the style of The House of NyghtFalcon, one of those

would be George Hurrell.

Often using little more than Fresnel lights from movie sets, pots,

pans, and sheets of metal left laying around on sets, Hurrell

created, defined, and embodied glamour photography for more

than four decades.

Over the years, we have tried to replicate Hurrell's style with

little success. With Profoto's Cine Reflector, we have finally

found the tools we needed. In this essay we will look at how we

have used the Cine Reflector to create images in the tradition

of Hurrell.

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