Julian Wasser
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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^Framed^ Joan Didion in front of her Stingray Corvette, 1968 - Edition AP/5
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Joan Didion in front of her Daytona Yellow Stingray Corvette, 1968, Time magazine
TIME commissioned this portrait of author Joan Didion photographed at her rented home on Franklin A...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser
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Silver Gelatin
Julian Wasser's Iconic Marcel Duchamp Playing Chess with Eve Babitz, 1963
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Marcel Duchamp and Eve Babitz, 1963, TIME
Walter Hopps, the curator of Duchamp's landmark retrospective at The Pasadena Art Museum, helped direct this shot by setting up the chess b...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser
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Silver Gelatin
H 33.75 in W 45 in D 1 in
Cher in Costume, by Julian Wasser -2/15 - Contemporary Celebrity Photography
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Cher on CBS TV wearing a Bob Mackie gown, 1975
"Cher is an American variety show that premiered on CBS in 1975, hosted by singer-actress Cher. The show had many famous musical guest...
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20th Century Contemporary Julian Wasser
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Silver Gelatin
Clint Eastwood on the Set of Magnum Force, Photograph by Julian Wasser - 2/20
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Clint Eastwood, 1973, Bravo (black and white)
Photographed on the set of Magnum Force, the 1973 sequel to Dirty Harry. Ten years earlier, Eastwood had been a struggling actor, but t...
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20th Century Contemporary Julian Wasser
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Silver Gelatin
Phil Spector and Blondie at Whisky a Go-Go, Los Angeles, by Julian Wasser - 2/20
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
A very rare photograph of Record Producer Phil Spector and Blondie, 1976, Time Magazine
In this photo, taken in the dressing room of the Whisky a Go-Go, the punk-rock group Blondie ...
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20th Century Contemporary Julian Wasser
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Silver Gelatin
David Geffen, Elton John, Carly Simon and James Taylor by Julian Wasser - 1/15
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
David Geffen, Elton John, Carly Simon, and James Taylor, 1974, Time
Photographed at Lou Adler's Roxy Nightclub. David Geffen was a partner in the Roxy Nightclub.
Size: 16 x 20 in.
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20th Century Contemporary Julian Wasser
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Silver Gelatin
David Bowie and Rodney Bingenheimer, Los Angeles by Julian Wasser - 1/15
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
David Bowie and Rodney Bingenheimer, 1972
Rodney Bingenheimer is credited with bringing the glam-rock phenomenon David Bowie to American audiences. No one in Los Angeles knew who Bo...
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20th Century Contemporary Julian Wasser
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Silver Gelatin
Martin Luther King, Los Angeles, 1963 by Julian Wasser
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Martin Luther King speaking at a civil rights rally in central Los Angeles in 1963. Julian Wasser took this photo for TIME Magazine. Years later former president Barack Obama purchas...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser
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Silver Gelatin
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