Julian Wasser 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.to
2
53
2
1
2
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
19
41
6
1
54
41
19
51
33
32
17
13
9
9
8
8
7
7
7
5
5
5
4
4
4
3
3
55
5
5
3
3
60
7,730
4,998
2,504
1,289
7
6
60
Artist: Julian Wasser
Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston, 1971 by Julian Wasser
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 si...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Woman with T-Bird at Paramount Pictures Studio, 1962
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Woman with T-Bird at Paramount Pictures Studio, 1962, ESCAPADE
Silver Gelatin Print
Edition size: 15
Available sizes:
16 x 20 inches
20 x 24 inche...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Julian Wasser photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Julian Wasser photography available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Julian Wasser in silver gelatin print, paper, photographic paper and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large Julian Wasser photography, so small editions measuring 14 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Luke Smalley, Bill Owens, and Natasha Zupan.