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Julian Wasser Color Photography

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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.
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Artist: Julian Wasser
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 Color Photography

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C Print

Bob & Sara Dylan, Paul & Linda McCartney, Cher & Gregg Allman by Julian Wasser
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Bob and Sara Dylan, Paul and Linda McCartney, Cher and Gregg Allman, 1976 This improbable group photo was taken at a party Rod Stewart threw at the Green...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Frank Zappa and the GTOs for The New York Times by Julian Wasser
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Silver Gelatin Print Edition size: 15 Unframed: 16 x 20 inches
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Color Photography

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Silver Gelatin

David Bowie at The Forum - mid 1970's by Julian Wasser
By Julian Wasser
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David Bowie at The Forum, mid 1970's Silver Gelatin Print Edition size: 15 *Also available in black & white* Unframed available in the following sizes: 16...
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1970s Contemporary Julian Wasser Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Joan Didion in front of her Stingray Corvette, 1968 by Julian Wasser
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Color Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Roman Polanksi on Cielo Drive
By Julian Wasser
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Roman Polanski on Cielo Drive, LIFE Magazine, 1969 Silver Gelatin Print Edition size: 15 16 x 20 inches 20 x 24 inches 30 x 40 inches 40 x 60 inches Art...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Color Photography

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Silver Gelatin

David Geffen, Elton John, Carly Simon and James Taylor, 1974
By Julian Wasser
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Photographed at Lou Adler's Roxy Nightclub. David Geffen was a partner in the Roxy Nightclub. Silver Gelatin Print Edition size: 15 Available sizes: 16 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Color Photography

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Silver Gelatin

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