UNITED STATES

Douglas Kirkland established himself with Look and then Life magazine in the 1960s and 1970s after apprenticing with Irving Penn in the late 1950s. His early photo essays on Greece and Lebanon were followed by fashion and celebrity photography of Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, and Elizabeth Taylor, among others.

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 Stephen Hawking. His next books, coming out in 1996 and 1997 are Body Stories a study of nudes and The Art of Cinematography with writer Robert Fisher.

Kirkland's work has been widely exhibited in Asia, Europe and the United States and he is a highly sought after commercial photographer. Within the last 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 was given a S.O.C. Lifetime Achievement Award in the autumn of 1995.