Douglas Kirkland, Professional Photographer (Douglas Kirkland Photography) Visit This Photographer's Web Site: http://www.douglaskirkland.com Douglas Kirkland is best known for his celebrity portraits as well as commercial, and fine arts photography. He started his career as a staff photographer on Look then Life magazines during the “60s/70s golden age of photojournalism”. Through the years his work has covered a wide variety of subjects from portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Sean Connery, Robert de Niro, Dr. Stephen Hawking, and Angelina Jolie to astronomy work in Chile and fashion photography above the Arctic Circle. He has worked on the sets of over a hundred and forty motion pictures, from “2001”, “Out Of Africa”, “Temptress Moon “ (in Shanghai)”Titanic”, “Moulin Rouge” and “Behind Enemy Lines”
He has published a number of books among which are “Light Years”, “Icons”, “Legends” and “Body Stories”. He has lectured all over the globe and his work has been shown in museums and galleries around the world. His book, “James Cameron’s Titanic”, was on the New York Times bestseller list and sold over a million copies in the United States alone. He recently completed advertising campains for “Down with Love” a romantic comedy starring Renee Zellwiger and Ewan Mc Gregor and Baz Luhrman’s “La Boheme” the opera set to debut on Broadway at the end of 2002. His latest book, “Una Notte Con Marilyn” is out with major exhibitions in Italy, Germany, England and the USA.
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