A Movie star Photographer’s Hidden Stash of Polaroids

For the remainder of the last decade—the years represented by these Polaroids—she was booked and busy. “It was such a period of growth for me as a photographer,” Shur advised me. “I really found myself, I’d say.” (She’s since launched monographs exploring her travels to Japan and her neighborhood in L.A.) The Polaroids, in the meantime, inform some sudden tales. Some of her topics, then on the pinnacle of fame, have since gone down unusual paths. Cheryl Hines, whom she shot for Entertainment Weekly, was identified on the time for “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” One Polaroid reveals an idea that wasn’t in the end used, with Hines’s mascara working down her stoic face—a defiant-martyr look that carries an unintended irony, now that Hines is infamous because the spouse of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Other Polaroids seize the musical second: a grinning Ghostface Killah (“He was very bummed that he was smiling”); a shirtless Coolio (“Coolio was late”); a frilly Nicole Scherzinger, then the ascendant lead vocalist of the Pussycat Dolls. Kid Rock, whom she shot for Spin, at his property in Michigan, was generally known as a flashy nation rocker and never but as a Trumpist firebrand. The shoot, Shur mentioned, concerned a whole lot of “loud” poses of the artist in his “ugly leather jacket and hat,” however the Polaroid catches him wanting uncharacteristically subdued at his keyboard: “I was unsure if he was going to be down to take those quieter pictures, and he was.”

Some of the male actors evoke the indie-boy cool issue of the time: Adam Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Peter Sarsgaard. The “Scrubs” star Zach Braff, who outlined a sure twee-depressive counterculture along with his 2004 movie “Garden State,” posed for Interview in a tweedy jacket. “I had a very innocent, professional crush on him at the time,” Shur recalled with a sigh. “I was, like, In another life, me and this nice Jewish boy from New Jersey could have been great.”