Louise Brooks
Photographed by Eugene Robert Richee
Paramount Studios Publicity Photo (Detail)
1928 · Hollywood, California

Eugene Robert Richee was Brooks's most frequent photographer. Had he only shot but two frames of her—this photo and the accompanying full-length shot—their collaboration on those alone would still have created an icon and defined the look of the 1920s. Louise summed up their work together in her typical crisp fashion: "Eugene Richee used to take sixty shots in two hours. We never said a word to each other. Perfect relationship."