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Julian Wasser Portrait Photography

American
Julian Wasser started his career in photography in the Washington DC bureau of the Associated Press where he met and accompanied the famous news photographer Weegee – who would become a lasting influence on him. In the mid-60s Wasser moved to Los Angeles as a contract photographer for TIME, LIFE, and FORTUNE magazines and becoming internationally known as the go to guy for getting candid but memorably composed photographs. (His iconic images of Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston; Marcel Duchamp and Eve Babitz; and a young Jodie Foster are already classics.) In 1968 TIME Magazine assigned Wasser to go to the home of the young writer Joan Didion whose book Slouching Towards Bethlehem was becoming a literary sensation. “I’d read her fiction,” said Wasser. “and she didn’t miss a thing. She was such a heavyweight person.” Wasser shot Didion at her rented house on Franklin Avenue in Hollywood, where she lived with her husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, and their daughter, Quintana Roo. “It was a nice, cozy house,” Wasser remembers. “And she was a very easy person to talk to. No Hollywood affectations.” They started the shoot inside the house, and then moved outside where Wasser posed Didion with her recently acquired yellow Corvette Stingray. Didion has said that the photograph with Quintana Roo on her lap was her favorite, but the shots with the Stingray and the indoor three-quarter portrait became such icons of style that they inspired the fashion house Celine to do a campaign with the model Daria Werbowy posing in the window of a car just like Didion. For our project show – Didion by Wasser – the gallery will be exhibiting selected published images as well as outtakes and never before seen contact sheets of Didion that with their repetitive variations take on a Warholian aura.
(Biography provided by Danziger Gallery)
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Artist: Julian Wasser
Eve Babitz and Marcel Duchamp playing chess during Duchamp's Pasadena Art Museum
By Julian Wasser
Located in New York, NY
Listing is for an unframed print and includes free shipping to the continental US and 14-day return policy. Julian Wasser Eve Babitz and Marcel Duchamp pl...
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1960s Julian Wasser Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Joan Didion, Hollywood, 1968 (Frame 33a.)
By Julian Wasser
Located in New York, NY
This is a limited edition 16 x 20 inch print of Joan Didion by photographer Julian Wasser shot for her iconic interview with TIME in 1968. Listing includes free shipping to the continental US and a 14-day return policy. Please inquire for framing options or international shipments. We offer framing services through our New York location. Joan Didion by Julian Wasser Gelatin Silver Print Paper Size: 16 x 20 inches Image Size: 11.5 x 17.5 inches Edition 9 of 15 Signed and on the back by Julian Wasser and editioned on adhesive certificate History Behind the Photograph - Julian Wasser started his career in photography in the Washington DC bureau of the Associated Press where he met and accompanied the famous news photographer Weegee – who would become a lasting influence on him. In the mid-60s Wasser moved to Los Angeles as a contract photographer for TIME, LIFE, and FORTUNE magazines and becoming internationally known as the go to guy for getting candid but memorably composed photographs. (His iconic images of Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston; Marcel Duchamp and Eve Babitz...
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1960s Julian Wasser Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Joan Didion, 1968
By Julian Wasser
Located in New York, NY
Joan Didion photographed by Julian Wasser for TIME magazine in 1968. This is a 20 x 24 inch platinum print made in 2022 at Weldon Labs in Los Angeles made ...
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1960s Julian Wasser Portrait Photography

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Joan Didion, Hollywood, 1968 (22-2) Three Quarters Portrait
By Julian Wasser
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes framing with UV plexiglas, free shipping to continental US and a 14-day return policy. Joan Didion by Julian Wasser Silver gelatin print Image Size: 11 x 8 inches Frame Size: 17 x 14 x 2 inches Edition 7 of 15 Signed on verso by Julian Wasser Please note the frame is in good condition. The print is in mint condition. Artist Biography - Julian Wasser started his career in photography in the Washington DC bureau of the Associated Press where he met and accompanied the famous news photographer Weegee – who would become a lasting influence on him. In the mid-60s Wasser moved to Los Angeles as a contract photographer for TIME, LIFE, and FORTUNE magazines and becoming internationally known as the go to guy for getting candid but memorably composed photographs. (His iconic images of Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston; Marcel Duchamp and Eve Babitz...
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1960s Julian Wasser Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Elizabeth Taylor at the Oscars, 1961 by Julian Wasser
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Liz Taylor at the Oscars, 1961, PARIS MATCH This photograph was taken at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on the night Elizabeth Taylor won her first Acad...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Gregg Allman and Cher, mid 1970's by Julian Wasser -
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Gregg Allman and Cher, mid 1970's Silver Gelatin Print Edition size: 15 Available sizes: 16 x 20 inches - $6,200 20 x 24 inches 30 x 40 inches 40 x 60 inches Artist Bio: After st...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Farrah Fawcett with Butterfly Mirror, 1976 by Julian Wasser
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Farrah Fawcett with Butterfly Mirror, 1976, PEOPLE Farrah Fawcett on the set of "Charlie's Angels" getting her hair and makeup done. Silver Gelatin Print Edition size: 15 Availabl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Portrait Photography

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Marcel Duchamp with his Bicycle Wheel, 1963 by Julian Wasser
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Marcel Duchamp with his bicycle wheel, 1963 Silver Gelatin Print Edition size: 15 Available sizes: 16 x 20 inches - $5,500 20 x 24 inches 30 x 40 inch...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Steve McQueen with 1962 Land Rover Series by Julian Wasser
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Silver Gelatin Print Edition size: 15 Available sizes: 16 x 20 inches - $7,200 20 x 24 inches 30 x 40 inches 40 x 60 inches Artist Bio: After starting his career at the age of 14...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Sonny and Cher, 1964 by Julian Wasser - Contemporary Photography
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Sonny and Cher, 1964 Silver Gelatin Print Edition size: 15 Available sizes: 16 x 20 inches $7,200 20 x 24 inches 30 x 40 inches 40 x 60 inches Artist...
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Dancer Toni Basil and Actor Dean Stockwell photographed by Julian Wasser
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Dancer, Toni Basil shown with actor Dean Stockwell. Silver Gelatin Print Edition size: 15 Available sizes: 16 x 20 inches - $5,200 20 x 24 inches 30 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Hollywood Icon Marilyn Monroe on the set of "Some Like It Hot", 1959 by Wasser
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Marilyn Monroe on the set of "Some Like It Hot", 1959 Silver Gelatin Print Edition size: 15 Available sizes: 16 x 20 inches - $6,200 20 x 24 inches 30 x 40 inches 40 x 60 inches A...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Portrait Photography

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Steve McQueen, 1964
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Steve McQueen, 1964 Silver Gelatin Print Edition size: 15 Available sizes: 16 x 20 inches - $6,200 20 x 24 inches 30 x 40 inches 40 x 60 inches Artis...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Portrait Photography

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Keith Moon, 1966 by Julian Wasser - Drummer of rock band, the Who
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Keith Moon, 1966, TIME Keith Moon, English drummer from the rock band, the Who, shares a limo with a girl holding a bottle of Dom Perignon. Taken outside o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Marilyn Monroe at the Golden Globes in the Beverly Hilton Hotel, 1962
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Marilyn Monroe, 1962, UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Marilyn Monroe photographed at the Golden Globes in the Beverly Hills Hotel. Silver Gelatin Print Edition size: 15 Available sizes...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Portrait Photography

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David Bowie at The Forum - mid 1970's
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
David Bowie at The Forum, mid 1970's Silver Gelatin Print Edition size: 15 *Also available in black & white* Available in the following sizes: 16 x 20 inc...
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1970s Contemporary Julian Wasser Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston, 1971
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston, 1971, STERN Photographed at Nicholson's house on Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles. Silver Gelatin Print Edition s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Portrait Photography

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