{"id":114413,"date":"2017-05-05T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T22:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/?p=114413"},"modified":"2017-07-25T17:27:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T21:27:13","slug":"douglas-kirkland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/douglas-kirkland\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer to Know: Douglas Kirkland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_120353\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/portrait-photography\/douglas-kirkland-elizabeth-taylor-1961\/id-a_1707303\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120353\" class=\"wp-image-120353 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Elizabeth_Taylor_1961_l.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Elizabeth_Taylor_1961_l.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Elizabeth_Taylor_1961_l-279x350.jpg 279w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Elizabeth_Taylor_1961_l-96x120.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-120353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/portrait-photography\/douglas-kirkland-elizabeth-taylor-1961\/id-a_1707303\/\"><em>Elizabeth Taylor<\/em>, 1961, offered by Mouche Gallery<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back in 1960, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/irving-penn-1917-2009-american\/\">Irving Penn<\/a>\u2019s assistant was barely getting by on his meager salary in New York City, so he asked the legendary fashion photographer for a raise. Instead of a negotiation, Penn curtly dismissed him, saying that others would be grateful to work in his position for free. Adding insult to injury, Penn informed this aspiring young photographer from a small Canadian town just north of Buffalo that he didn\u2019t have the sophistication to make it in the big leagues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That assistant became the now-much-celebrated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/douglas-kirkland\/\">\u201ccelebrity\u201d lensman Douglas Kirkland<\/a>, who at 83 years young, is still very much in the game. Through May 10, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/dealers\/mouche-gallery\/\">Mouche Gallery in Beverly Hills<\/a> is presenting &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beyond the Lens<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,&#8221; a retrospective of Kirkland&#8217;s most acclaimed photographs, along with his latest book of celebrity images, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Freeze Frame: Second Cut<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Glitterati).<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_120523\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/portrait-photography\/douglas-kirkland-brigitte-bardot-mexico\/id-a_1240063\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120523\" class=\"wp-image-120523 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brigitte_Bardot_Mexico_1965_l.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brigitte_Bardot_Mexico_1965_l.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brigitte_Bardot_Mexico_1965_l-533x350.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brigitte_Bardot_Mexico_1965_l-120x79.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brigitte_Bardot_Mexico_1965_l-365x241.jpg 365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-120523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/portrait-photography\/douglas-kirkland-brigitte-bardot-mexico\/id-a_1240063\/\"><em>Brigitte Bardot Mexico<\/em>. Offered by Clic<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ironically, it was Kirkland\u2019s small-town earnestness, combined with his photographic chops \u2014 he\u2019d been avidly snapping pictures since he was 10 with the dream of becoming a photographer for <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Life<\/em> magazine<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that quickly led him to big-time success. Determined to prove Penn wrong, he took every photographic gig he could to survive and within a year landed a job at <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Look,<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Life<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;s<\/span><i> <\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">competitor, which had a huge circulation of 7 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Out in Los Angeles on a fashion shoot in 1960, Kirkland got a call from his boss to get to Las Vegas fast. Elizabeth Taylor was there and had just granted the magazine an interview. It was a scoop. She had spent the past few months in convalescent seclusion after nearly dying of double pneumonia, and the world wanted to know how she was. Yet she insisted on no photographs. But after the interview, the soft-spoken Kirkland introduced himself to Taylor and explained how career-making it would be if she would let him, a newbie, photograph her. Appreciative of his modest directness, she asked him to return the following evening. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/portrait-photography\/douglas-kirkland-elizabeth-taylor-1961\/id-a_1707303\/\">His vivid portraits of the violet-eyed star<\/a>, looking as sultry as ever despite a prominent tracheotomy scar, ended up on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Look<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s cover, and was syndicated worldwide. Kirkland had joined the big league!<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_120663\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120663\" class=\"wp-image-120663 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marilyn_Monroe_1961_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marilyn_Monroe_1961_2.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marilyn_Monroe_1961_2-353x350.jpg 353w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marilyn_Monroe_1961_2-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-120663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/portrait-photography\/douglas-kirkland-marilyn-monroe-1961\/id-a_1707433\/\"><em>Marilyn Monroe<\/em>, 1961. Offered by Mouch Gallery<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Soon, Kirkland was photographing a Dom Perignon\u2013sipping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/portrait-photography\/douglas-kirkland-marilyn-monroe-1961\/id-a_1707433\/\">Marilyn Monroe<\/a>, nude in bed under a white silk sheet. That fabled sitting, during which Monroe asked the crew to leave, saying \u201cI want to be alone with this boy, I find it usually works better that way,\u201d produced some of the most enchantingly sexy-sweet images ever taken of the screen goddess.<\/p>\n<p>The young man whom Penn had deemed a rube turned out to have a true gift for tasteful titillation, and Kirkland would find his specialty in photographing gorgeous women like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/douglas-kirkland-bridgette-bardot-blue-curtains\/id-a_1699663\/\">Brigitte Bardot<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/portrait-photography\/douglas-kirkland-sophia-loren-1972\/id-a_1704663\/\">Sophia Loren<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/portrait-photography\/douglas-kirkland-ann-margret-1971\/id-a_1707233\/\">Ann-Margret<\/a>, Jessica Lange, Nicole Kidman and Angelina Jolie. These beauties felt both admired and at ease with him. As Jeanne Moreau once told Kirkland, looking straight in his eyes, \u201cI like watching you move. You are what you are.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_120513\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/portrait-photography\/douglas-kirkland-ann-margret-1971\/id-a_1707233\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120513\" class=\"wp-image-120513 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ann_Margret_1971_l.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ann_Margret_1971_l.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ann_Margret_1971_l-276x350.jpg 276w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ann_Margret_1971_l-95x120.jpg 95w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-120513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/portrait-photography\/douglas-kirkland-ann-margret-1971\/id-a_1707233\/\"><em>Ann-Margret<\/em>, 1971. Offered by Mouche Gallery<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Traveling with Judy Garland on her comeback tour in 1961, Kirkland saw not only the high-intensity performer and devoted mother, but also an anxious, exhausted woman. His close-up of her pensive, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/portrait-photography\/douglas-kirkland-judy-garland-shedding-tear-1961\/id-a_1707333\/\">tear-streaked face<\/a> still speaks volumes about the complexity of stardom. Soon after, sent to Paris to document <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/black-white-photography\/douglas-kirkland-coco-chanel-paris-1962\/id-a_1324343\/\">Coco Chanel at work<\/a> and leisure over the course of three weeks, Kirkland encountered a 79-year-old couturier nettled by his imposition on her for a middlebrow American publication, but before long she took a liking to him. In his photos, Chanel is unguarded, even light-hearted.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, so charmed was she by Kirkland, she encouraged him to learn French. His commitment to speaking the language of love proved fateful. A few years later, back in Paris to photograph <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/black-white-photography\/douglas-kirkland-audrey-hepburn-paris\/id-a_370722\/\">Audrey Hepburn<\/a> for promotional stills for the 1966 film <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How To Steal A Million<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, he met Fran\u00e7oise Kemmel-Coulter, a 21-year-old Sorbonne student, who was the daughter of the film\u2019s publicist and had stopped by the set after her classes. They quickly fell in love and got married, with her not so much giving up the prospect of a career as supercharging his. Today, Fran\u00e7oise is known as Kirkland\u2019s \u201csecret weapon.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_120503\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/portrait-photography\/douglas-kirkland-robert-redford-katherine-ross-paul-newman-1968\/id-a_1707353\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120503\" class=\"wp-image-120503 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Robert_Redford_Katherine_Ross_and_Paul_Newman_Butch_Cassidy_and_the_Sundance_Kid_1968_l.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Robert_Redford_Katherine_Ross_and_Paul_Newman_Butch_Cassidy_and_the_Sundance_Kid_1968_l.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Robert_Redford_Katherine_Ross_and_Paul_Newman_Butch_Cassidy_and_the_Sundance_Kid_1968_l-486x350.jpg 486w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Robert_Redford_Katherine_Ross_and_Paul_Newman_Butch_Cassidy_and_the_Sundance_Kid_1968_l-120x86.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-120503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/portrait-photography\/douglas-kirkland-robert-redford-katherine-ross-paul-newman-1968\/id-a_1707353\/\"><em>Robert Redford, Katherine Ross and Paul Newman<\/em>, 1968. Offered by Mouche Gallery<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kirkland\u2019s gift for photojournalism made him much sought after by Hollywood studios to document the filming of movies. He\u2019s worked on the sets of more than one hundred, including such classics as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2001: A Space Odyssey<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/portrait-photography\/douglas-kirkland-robert-redford-katherine-ross-paul-newman-1968\/id-a_1707353\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Out of Africa<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sophie\u2019s Choice<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Titanic<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 the book he produced of the James Cameron blockbuster was the first photography publication to reach the top of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New York Times<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> bestseller list \u2014 and most recently <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Promise<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, starring Christian Bale<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kirkland\u2019s keen directorial understanding of filmmaking and his love of creative collaboration is apparent in some of the photo projects he and Fran\u00e7oise have produced together, like <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Homage to Italian Cinema <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2008), a re-creation of famous scenes from great Italian films, originally commissioned by <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vanity Fair Italia<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and then <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When We Were Young<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2015).<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_120553\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120553\" class=\"wp-image-120553 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dita_Von_Teese_2006_l.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dita_Von_Teese_2006_l.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dita_Von_Teese_2006_l-244x350.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dita_Von_Teese_2006_l-84x120.jpg 84w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-120553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/portrait-photography\/douglas-kirkland-ditta-von-tesse-2006\/id-a_1707293\/\"><em>Ditta Von Teese<\/em>, 2006. Offered by Mouche Gallery<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eager to document what they recalled of the magical first days of their love, in 1972, the Kirklands spent a summer photographing Fran\u00e7oise\u2019s 21-year-old brother Nicolas and his new girlfriend, the 23-year-old Caroline, in St. Tropez and at Fran\u00e7oise\u2019s parents\u2019 house in the South of France. It took them more than 40 years to find the right designer, Sarah Morgan Karp, to turn the photographs into a book. But with her image selection, layout, and pacing and Fran\u00e7oise\u2019s expressive prose<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, When We Were Young<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, has all the erotic charm of a 1960s French film. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now, the Kirklands have taken their photo-making in another direction by collaborating with the glorious Erika Lemay, an extraordinary acrobat who guest-starred with Cirque du Soleil, to create a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/douglas-kirkland-alphabet-featuring-erika-lemay\/id-a_1699733\/\">photographic alphabet in the fantastical style of Ert\u00e9<\/a>. Witty and alluring, the images, on view at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/dealers\/mouche-gallery\/\">Mouche Gallery<\/a>, are sure to win this all-star photographer an even wider set of fans and acclaim.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/douglas-kirkland\/\">Browse More Douglas Kirkland 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