GREATNESS and how the modern portrait was perceived so many years ago. The rules were being created and already broken with great success. We watched and learned. We will continue to study the iconic photographers of another age. The light, the style, the imagination… all of it.
Douglas Kirkland was never afraid to create beautiful portraiture along with documentary style pictures of iconic people that history keeps in our minds. Marilyn, Brigitte, Raquel, Jack, Elizabeth, Faye, Audrey, Judy, Coco and beyond.
I’m sharing with you a bio published by Lucie Foundation today.
“Douglas Kirkland (1934 – 2022), has passed away at age 88 on October 2, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA. His unforgettable images and generous, exuberant spirit touched generations and will continue to do so. Kirkland was the recipient of the 2003 Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Entertainment Photography.
Douglas Kirkland was born in Toronto Canada. He joined Look Magazine in his early twenties, and later Life Magazine during the golden age of 60’s/70’s photojournalism. Among his assignments were essays on Greece, Lebanon and Japan as well as fashion and celebrity work, photographing Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlene Dietrich among others.
Douglas Kirkland’s fine arts photography has been exhibited all over the world. His exhibition of Freeze Frame is now in the permanent collection of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills. His work is also in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian, the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra Australia, the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Eastman House in Rochester and the Houston Center for Photography and the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles.
When not traveling the globe on assignment, his home and studio is in the Hollywood Hills where he lives with his wife and business partner Françoise.”
Douglas Kirkland 1934- 2022
Rest well Mr. Kirkland. Thank you for your contributions to the art world.
article contributor: Lori Patrick
