maandag, september 25, 2006
Martha Holmes, fotografe van Life magazine, overleden
Martha Holmes, a former Life magazine photographer known for her signature pictures of famous people including painter Jackson Pollock and film stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, has died. She was 83.
Holmes was hired by Life in 1944, after another Life photographer on assignment there noticed her work. She was the third female addition to the elite magazine staff, and worked mainly out of Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and later New York.
«Martha Holmes was a rarity among professional photographers, because everybody liked her,» former Life managing editor Ralph Graves said in a statement. «She made people feel she cared just as much about them as she did about getting her pictures.»
In 1949, she photographed Pollock at work with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. The image became a U.S. postage stamp, with the cigarette airbrushed out.
Holmes depicted Bogart and Bacall standing by a table at a House Un-American Activities Committee hearing on Communist influence in Hollywood in 1947, CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow driving a tractor on his Connecticut farm, and Eleanor Roosevelt walking in woods with a group of orphans.
Other notable subjects were United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis, comedian Groucho Marx, jazz immortal Louis Armstrong and singer Frank Sinatra.
Bron: AP.
Holmes was hired by Life in 1944, after another Life photographer on assignment there noticed her work. She was the third female addition to the elite magazine staff, and worked mainly out of Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and later New York.
«Martha Holmes was a rarity among professional photographers, because everybody liked her,» former Life managing editor Ralph Graves said in a statement. «She made people feel she cared just as much about them as she did about getting her pictures.»
In 1949, she photographed Pollock at work with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. The image became a U.S. postage stamp, with the cigarette airbrushed out.
Holmes depicted Bogart and Bacall standing by a table at a House Un-American Activities Committee hearing on Communist influence in Hollywood in 1947, CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow driving a tractor on his Connecticut farm, and Eleanor Roosevelt walking in woods with a group of orphans.
Other notable subjects were United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis, comedian Groucho Marx, jazz immortal Louis Armstrong and singer Frank Sinatra.
Bron: AP.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 09:34
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