Douglas Kirkland 

Photographer Extraodinaire

Photo by Jack Klein

Biography
(Updated from website, and used with his permission. Text and images are © Douglas Kirkland.)

Douglas Kirkland, who was born in Toronto Canada, spent much of his early professional life working in New York, before relocating in Los Angeles in the mid '70s.

After apprenticing with Irving Penn, Kirkland's early career started quickly when he joined Look and then Life Magazines in the '60s and '70s. Among his assignments were essays on Greece and Lebanon followed by fashion and celebrity photography of Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, and Elizabeth Taylor, among others.

Through his career, Douglas Kirkland has photographed on the sets of over 100 motion pictures. Among them, "Showgirls", "Out of Africa", "Sophie's Choice", "Romancing the Stone", "2001" and "The Sound of Music", and "Moulin Rouge!"

A book of Kirkland's work, "Light Years" was published by Thames and Hudson in 1989 followed by "ICONS, Creativity with Camera and Computer", from Collins San Francisco in the autumn of 1993. Some of the subjects interpreted in "ICONS" were Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Kim Basinger, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro and Dr. Stephen Hawking.

PHOTOS
Above left: a classic of Marilyn Monroe - Douglas recently had a book published about this photographer's dream assignment - AN EVENING WITH MARILYN - featuring this photo on its cover. 
Above right:   Douglas Kirland in a tank during the filming of James Cameron's  TITANIC.  Photo by Scott Browning.   The book of his photography for the movie - JAMES CAMERON'S TITANIC - was the first photo book to make the New York Times Best Sellers list.)
Below left: Tom Cruise - abour the time of filming RAINMAN.  
Below right: - On the set of TITANIC - James Cameron, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. Photo © Douglas Kirkland.)

In addition to commercial photography Kirkland's fine arts work continues to expand and be widely exhibited through Asia, Europe and the United States. Within the last few years, he has lectured at, The Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., The American Film Institute in Hawaii, The Art Center of Design in Pasadena and Apple Computer Centers in New York and Los Angeles, as well as Kodak Centers in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. He received an S.O.C. "Lifetime Achievement Award" in the autumn of 1995.

Douglas' website: http://www.douglaskirkland.com

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