Archive
DOUGLAS KIRKLAND (USA)
12.10. - 12.11.2006
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Antonio Banderas, Brigitte Bardot, Kim Basinger, Drew Barrymore, Bjork, Cate Blanchet, Pierce Brosnan, Richard Burton, Leonardo di Caprio, Sean Connery, F. Ford Coppola, Jamie Lee Curtis, Catherine Deneuve, Marlene Dietrich, Jodie Foster, Ewan Mc Greggor, Salma Hayek, Dr.Stephen Hawking, Galdie Hawn, Audrey Hepburn, Kathrine Hepburn, Dustin Hoffman, Denis Hooper, Charlie Chaplin, Cher, Mick Jagger, Angelina Jolie, Grace Jones, Nicole Kidmann, John Lennon, Gong Li, Sophia Loren, Marylin Monroe, Jack Nicholson, Brigitte Nielsen, Robert de Niro, Man Ray, Diana Ross, Susan Sarandon, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ringo Starr, Sting, Elizabeth Taylor, John Travolta, Rachel Ward, Andy Warhol, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Winslet, Stevie Wonder, Rene Zellweger
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Antonio Banderas, Brigitte Bardot, Kim Basinger, Drew Barrymore, Bjork, Cate Blanchet, Pierce Brosnan, Richard Burton, Leonardo di Caprio, Sean Connery, F. Ford Coppola, Jamie Lee Curtis, Catherine Deneuve, Marlene Dietrich, Jodie Foster, Ewan Mc Greggor, Salma Hayek, Dr.Stephen Hawking, Galdie Hawn, Audrey Hepburn, Kathrine Hepburn, Dustin Hoffman, Denis Hooper, Charlie Chaplin, Cher, Mick Jagger, Angelina Jolie, Grace Jones, Nicole Kidmann, John Lennon, Gong Li, Sophia Loren, Marylin Monroe, Jack Nicholson, Brigitte Nielsen, Robert de Niro, Man Ray, Diana Ross, Susan Sarandon, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ringo Starr, Sting, Elizabeth Taylor, John Travolta, Rachel Ward, Andy Warhol, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Winslet, Stevie Wonder, Rene Zellweger
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DOUGLAS KIRKLAND
Douglas Kirkland, who was born in Toronto, Canada, spent much of his early professional life working in New York, before relocating to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s. Kirkland’s career started quickly when he joined Look Magazine in his early twenties, and later Life during the golden age of 1960’s and 1970’s photo journalism. Among his assignments were essays on Greece and Lebanon as well as fashion and celebrity work, photographing Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlene Dietrich among others.Through the years, Douglas Kirkland has worked on the sets of over one hundred motion pictures. Among them, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 2001, True Lies, Out of Africa, and most recently Titanic. A book of Kirkland's celebrity work, Light Years was published by Thames and Hudson in 1989 followed by ICONS, Creativity with Camera and Computer, by Collins San Francisco in 1993. Some of the subjects interpreted in ICONS were Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Kim Basinger, Sean Connery, Robert DeNiro and Dr. Stephen Hawking. In 1997 Kirkland has had four new books published, two in Italy from Mondadori; Legends and Body Stories, plus James Cameron's Titanic, Harper Collins USA, and Woza Africa, for the International Red Cross, Geneva. Douglas Kirkland is known for his commercial photography as well as fine arts work and continues to be widely exhibited through Asia, Europe and the United States.
Within the last few years, he has lectured at: The Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., The American Film Institute in Hawaii and Los Angeles, The Art Center of Design in Pasadena as well as Kodak Centers in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. In the autumn of 1995 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American motion pictures S.O.C. (Society of Operating Cameramen).
In Italy, the city of Verona hung a highly successful retrospective with 235 pieces of Kirkland’s work, at the Scavi Scaligeri. This show ran from the beginning of October 1997 through the end of January 1998. On January 25,1998, James Cameron’s Titanic became #1 on the New York Times paperback Best Sellers List, the first time ever for a picture book.
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