A captivating photographic odyssey spanning fashion, Hollywood and travel, this is the first publication in almost forty years on the work of George Hoyningen-Huene, the photographer whose images defined an era.George Hoyningen-Huene's visual innovations shaped the worlds of high fashion, film and international travel. His photographs epitomize early twentieth-century elegance and glamour, while his work in Hollywood helped to reimagine cinema in its golden age.This richly illustrated book traces Huene's life from his youth in St Petersburg and England, to heady days spent among the bohemians of 1920s Paris, where he photographed couture for Vogue and portraits for Vanity Fair. It chronicles his time at Harper's Bazaarin New York, where he perfected dazzling new colour photographic processes, his second career in Los Angeles, working closely with the director George Cukor as a colour consultant on films such as A Star is Born, and his friendships with icons including Greta Garbo and Katharine Hepburn. It also examines the unique home he and Horst P. Horst built in Tunisia, and his travels in the Levant, Greece, Mexico and on the African continent.Featuring previously unpublished correspondence and archival material alongside beautifully printed plates, this publication is a timely reappraisal of one of history's greatest photographers.