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Leo Fuchs

Leo Fuchs is a Hollywood veteran who spent twenty years shooting some of the most moving and memorable images of Fifties and Sixties film icons. A career that culminated in a major retrospective at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the Oscar academy) in Los Angeles in 2001. Born in Vienna in1929, Fuchs emigrated to New York with his family in 1939.  He sold his first photograph, one of Eleanor Roosevelt, for $5 when he was barely a teenager, then quit school at 14 to apprentice at Globe Photos in New York. Fuchs went on to become one of the world's leading "special photographers" on movie sets in Europe and North America. The intimate and immediate shots taken during shooting, and while socialising with the stars, were syndicated to magazines the world over.  His photographic essays appeared in such publications as Life, Look, and Paris Match. Film icons Audrey Hepburn, Paul Newman, Gregory Peck, Sean Connery, Shirley MacLaine, Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando and Cary Grant, as well as directors such as Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger and Fred Zinnemann were all captured by Fuchs’ camera. The excellent working relationships Fuchs created can be seen clearly in the intimacy of his photographs. Further information about the artist is available for download: Click Here

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