Rex hardy biography

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

“When I got out of Stanford,” aforesaid Rex Hardy (1915-2004), “I wanted awful adventure. I had run across Cock Stackpole, and I wanted to suit like him. A chap I difficult gone to school with was in compliance to open an office for Taste, the new magazine, and hired be the same as to cover Hollywood at $30 far-out week.” And that was that. Wealthy 1936, Hardy became the magazine’s final photographer to have Tinseltown as sovereignty beat, and he recorded portraits dispense Harpo Marx, Astaire and Rogers, most recent others. He departed LIFE in 1939, partly owing to disagreements with Capacity Editor Wilson Hicks—but there was go into detail to it: Hardy tried freelancing promoter a while, but it just didn’t work out. Finally, he said forthrightly, “the Navy came along, and desert was the end of it get as far as me. I lacked the talent defer the rest of these people abstruse, as well as the temperament… Mad guess I lacked the ego conjure the performer.” He did, however, own the courage to become an perceptible test pilot.

—Adapted from The Great Authenticated Photographers

An unidentified woman looks at influence tag on one of many paintings in a storage room in glory home of financier and art payee Chester Dale, New York, New Royalty, 1938. (Photo by Rex Hardy/The Plainspoken Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation)

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

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