Frank Capra, photographed by George Hoyningen-Huene for *Vanity Fair,* circa 1934.

Lee Miller, the photographer and model, in 1932.

*Divers, Swimwear by A. J. Izod,* taken on the roof of a Parisian terrace in the summer of 1930. The models are thought to be Horst P. Horst and Miller.

Josephine Baker, the Jazz Age performer, posing for *Vanity Fair* in 1929.

Toto Koopman, the Dutch model, wearing an evening dress by Augustabernard, 1933.

A model posing in an evening dress designed by Jeanne Paquin, 1934.

Maggy Rouff, the designer and socialite, 1939.

The Porch of the Maidens at the Temple of Athena Polias, on the Acropolis, in Athens, 1939.

Serge Lifar and Olga Spessivtzeva, principal dancers for the Ballet Russes, as Bacchus and Ariadne, 1931.

Salvador and Gala Dalí, photographed with Salvador’s *L’Instant Sublime,* 1939.

Cecil Beaton at Ashcombe, his English country house, 1930.

Photography’s Années Folles

George Hoyningen-Huene’s portraits of everyone from Josephine Baker to Judy Garland, Katharine Hepburn, and Frank Capra—collected in a new book—evoke the style and glamour of the 20th century

In 1965, New York’s Museum of Modern Art held a summer exhibition titled “Glamour Portraits.” Images in the show presented “mythical women as created by photographers since the 1850s.” It was a first—fashion photography had gained entrée to a museum.

Many big names were in the show: the Victorian giants Adolphe Braun and Julia Margaret Cameron, midcentury phenoms Man Ray and Cecil Beaton, postwar stars Irving Penn and Richard Avedon. And then there was George Hoyningen-Huene, who loomed large among them. When he died three years later, in 1968, he was preparing for his own solo show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, scheduled for and realized in 1970.