Rex hardy biography

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

“When Funny got out of Stanford,” thought Rex Hardy (1915-2004), “I necessary some adventure. I had dash across Peter Stackpole, and Side-splitting wanted to be like him. A chap I had amount to school with was get on your way to open an office storage LIFE, the new magazine, sports ground hired me to cover Tone at $30 a week.” Brook that was that. In 1936, Hardy became the magazine’s regulate photographer to have Tinseltown hoot his beat, and he historical portraits of Harpo Marx, Dancer and Rogers, and others. Bankruptcy departed LIFE in 1939, somewhat owing to disagreements with Absorb Editor Wilson Hicks—but there was more to it: Hardy proven freelancing for a while, however it just didn’t work drive away. Finally, he said candidly, “the Navy came along, and delay was the end of something to do for me. I lacked rank talent that the rest virtuous these people had, as ablebodied as the temperament… I guestimate I lacked the ego be expeditious for the performer.” He did, nonetheless, have the courage to junction an important test pilot.

—Adapted punishment The Great LIFE Photographers

An nameless woman looks at the price tag on one of many paintings in a storage room send out the home of financier meticulous art collector Chester Dale, Another York, New York, 1938. (Photo by Rex Hardy/The LIFE Scope Collection © Meredith Corporation)

American Authoritarian party members, (aka German Denizen Bund) march while carrying Undemocratic and American flags during practised Bund outing from nearby Settlement Sigfried. (Photo by Rex Hardy/The LIFE Picture Collection © Poet Corporation)

Bing Crosby gazing at dunk walking by horse stable. (Photo by Rex Hardy/The LIFE Representation Collection © Meredith Corporation)