Julian Wasser Figurative 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
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Artist: Julian Wasser
Marcel Duchamp Playing Chess with Eve Babitz, 1963 - Julian Wasser
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Marcel Duchamp and Eve Babitz, 1963, TIME
Walter Hopps, the curator of Duchamp's landmark retrospective at The Pasadena Art Museum, helped direct this shot...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Figurative Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Julian Wasser
s Iconic Marcel Duchamp Playing Chess with Eve Babitz, 1963
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
*Only a few lifetime prints available*
Marcel Duchamp and Eve Babitz, 1963, TIME
Walter Hopps, the curator of Duchamp's landmark retrospective at The Pasadena Art Museum, helped di...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Figurative Photography
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Bunny and Michael at the Whisky A Go-Go by Julian Wasser
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Bunny and Michael at the Whisky A Go-Go
Silver Gelatin Print
Edition size: 15
Available sizes:
20 x 16 inches
Artist Bio:
After starting his career at the age of 14 as a copy b...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Figurative Photography
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Silver Gelatin
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 Figurative Photography
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Archival Pigment
Iggy Pop, 1973 by Julian Wasser - Music
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Iggy Pop being whipped by Ron Asheton, 1973, TIME
Silver Gelatin Print
Edition size: 15
16 x 20 inches
Artist Bio:
After starting his career at the age o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Figurative Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Robert F. Kennedy, Ambassador Hotel by Julian Wasser - Limited Edition 6/15
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Robert F. Kennedy, Ambassador Hotel, 1968, LIFE Magazine
Photo of Bobby Kennedy giving his final victory speech in the California Democratic presiden...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Figurative Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Martin Luther King, Los Angeles, 1963 by Julian Wasser
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Martin Luther King speaking at a civil rights rally in central Los Angeles in 1963. Julian Wasser took this photo for TIME Magazine. Years later former president Barack Obama purchas...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Figurative Photography
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Martin Luther King, Los Angeles, 1963 by Julian Wasser - 15/15
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Martin Luther King speaking at a civil rights rally in central Los Angeles in 1963. Julian Wasser took this photo for TIME Magazine. Years later former president Barack Obama purchas...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Figurative Photography
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Silver Gelatin
The Rolling Stones, 1965 by Julian Wasser - Mick Jagger - 80s rock
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
The Rolling Stones, 1965, TIME
Silver Gelatin Print
Edition size: 15
16 x 20 inches
Artist Bio:
After starting his career at the age of 14 as a copy boy in the Washington bureau...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Figurative Photography
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Silver Gelatin
David Geffen, Elton John, Carly Simon and James Taylor, 1974
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
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 Figurative Photography
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Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood, 1962
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty, 1962, TIME
Photographed at the Academy Awards in Santa Monica. Wood and Beatty played star-crossed lovers in the 1961 film "Splendor in the Grass...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Figurative Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Natalie Wood at The Daisy, 1964
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Natalie Wood, 1964, Los Angeles Magazine
The Daisy, an exclusive nightclub on Rodeo Drive, was the place to be seen in the 60s. Here is Natalie Wood arri...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Figurative Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Tail O
the Pup Hotdog Stand, Los Angeles, 1963
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Tail O' the Pup, 1963
Near to where the Beverly Center stands today was the popular Tail 'O the Pup hot dog stand with its weiner-shaped building and po...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Figurative Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Brigitte Bardot in Westwood for Viva Maria!, 1965 - Julian Wasser
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Brigitte Bardot, 1965, TIME
This photo was taken at the premiere of Louis Malle's French Film "VIVA MARIA!" at the Bruin Theatre in Westwood.
Silver Gelat...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Figurative Photography
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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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Figurative Photography
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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
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16 x 20 inches
20 x 24 inche...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julian Wasser Figurative Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
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