8 November 2024

National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place
London
WC2H 0HE
npg.org.uk

Simon Crocker, Chair Emeritus of the John Kobal Foundation and co-author of Fabulous Faces of Classic Hollywood (published by ACC Art Books), and award-winning photographer Nadav Kander, in conversation with Gerry Brakus, creative director of the New Statesman. They discussed how photographers in the Hollywood movie studios system between 1925-1960, and contemporary photographers now, perceive and approach their portrait sessions of movie and music stars and a wide range of cultural figures.