DOUGLAS KIRKLAND

DOUGLAS KIRKLAND

An exhibition of works by Hollywood’s legendary photographer
March 9 – April 20, 2019

SPECIAL EVENT: MEET DOUGLAS KIRKLAND, April 18, 11am -1pm, when the legendary Hollywood photographer tells the stories behind the iconic photos during an informal tour of the exhibition led by the maestro himself. Free to the public.

Palos Verdes Art Center / Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts Education is pleased to announce Douglas Kirkland, an exhibition of works by Hollywood’s legendary photographer. The exhibition opens at PVAC on March 9 with an artist’s reception open free to the public from six to nine p.m. and will remain on view through April 21, 2019.

Douglas Kirkland is an award-winning celebrity photographer. He joined Look Magazine in his early twenties, then Life Magazine during the golden age of photojournalism in the 1960s and 1970s. He simultaneously contributed to other major publications around the world, including The London Sunday Times Magazine, The New York Times Magazine and Town & Country, among many others.

Between 1960 and the present, Douglas Kirkland has photographed over 2,000 assignments and more than 600 major celebrities – from Marilyn Monroe to Angelina Jolie. During the same period he worked on the sets of more than 150 motion pictures, including The Sound of Music (1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey(1968), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Out of Africa (1985) Titanic(1997) Moulin Rouge (2000),  Australia (2007), The Great Gatsby (2011),  and The   33 in 2014.

His books include Light Years (1989), Icons (1993), Legends (1999), Body Stories(1998), Freeze Frame (2007), An Evening With Marilyn (2002), Coco Chanel: Three Weeks (2008), James Cameron’s Titanic (1997), Michael Jackson the Making of Thriller (2010), With Marilyn (2012). A monograph on his career, Douglas Kirkland – A Life in Pictures, was released in September of 2013. His new book, Physical Poetry Alphabet, was released in June 2018 by Sylph Editions in London.