Kirkland’s assignments have taken him to all continents in the world (with the exception of Antarctica) where he worked on subjects as varied as: Astronomy in Chile, to The Trans Siberian Railroad, and fashion in Bali.
Among his current book projects are a Black & White volume “When We Were Young”. In October 2007, Douglas received an Honorary Master of Fine Arts Degree from Brooks Institute of Photography for his deep commitment and dedication to his profession. Some of the awards he has received include a “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the American S.O.C., Photographer of the Year from the PMA, a Lucie Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Entertainment Photography from the IPA in 2003, The Golden Eye of Russia in April 2006 and a Life Time Achievement Award from CAPIC in his native Toronto Canada in May 2006. He is a member of the prestigious Hewlett Packard’s Photo Influencers and Canon’s Explorers of Light and as well as an associate member of the American Society of Cinematographers. In September of 2008, Vanity Fair Italy organized a retrospective of his work at the Museum of the Triennale in Milan. His work is also in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian, the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra Australia, the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Eastman House in Rochester and the Houston Center for Photography and the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles. His exhibition of Freeze Frame is now in the permanent collection of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills. “Michael Jackson – the Making of Thriller” and his most recent monograph “A Life in Pictures”.ĭouglas Kirkland’s fine arts photography has been exhibited all over the world. Some of his books are “Light Years”, “Icons”, “Legends”, “Body Stories”, “An Evening With Marilyn”, the best selling “James Cameron’s Titanic”, “Freeze Frame”, a decade by decade look behind the scenes from 50 years photographing the entertainment industry and “Coco Chanel, Three Weeks”. Among them, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”, “2001 A Space Odyssey”, “Sound of Music”, “Out of Africa”, “Titanic” “Moulin Rouge”, “Australia” and “The Great Gatsby” Baz Luhrmann’s film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire. Through the years, Douglas Kirkland has worked on the sets of over one hundred motion pictures. Among his assignments were essays on Greece, Lebanon and Japan as well as fashion and celebrity work, photographing Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlene Dietrich among others. He joined Look Magazine in his early twenties, and later Life Magazine during the golden age of 60’s/70’s photojournalism. Some years are absolutely gone.Douglas Kirkland was born in Toronto Canada. “And as the years went on I did less and less, and if I did do anything, it was with very little thought. It wasn’t that every day was a bad day, but I just wasn’t doing anything. His first solo album, Sentimental Journey, was well received, but his next offerings flopped, with most failing to make the UK charts, and his life spiralled out of control. To entertain the idea of leaving the band, but he had the most difficult ride after the demise of The Beatles. So when devastated fans condemn-ed Paul for breaking up the group, he told a newspaper: “Ringo left first, then George, then John. George Harrison was next to briefly quit the band the following January, and in the September John, too, told the others he wanted out. When he returned to Abbey Road, his bandmates, John Lennon, George Harrison and Paul McCartney, had decorated the entire studio, including Ringo’s drum kit, with flowers.īut the peace and harmony were short-lived. He returned to the studio after receiving a telegram telling him: “You’re the best rock ’n’ roll drummer in the world. Ringo’s walkout was hushed up and lasted just a month. Ringo Starr on £200m Beatles reunion that was ruined by a 18ft Great White shark
The pair starred together in black comedy, The Magic Christian, which was released in 1969. Ringo went to Sardinia, where he borrowed a yacht from his friend, actor Peter Sellers. “One night he couldn’t stand it any longer, got fed up and left.” Producer Ron Richards recalled: “He used to sit there for hours waiting for the others to turn up. Ringo had been the first to leave the band, walking out when they were recording The White Album in 1968. “It got progressively worse, and the blackouts got worse, and I didn’t know where I’d been, what I’d done.” “I played Washington with the Beach Boys, or so they tell me. He said: “I’ve got photographs of me playing all over the world, but I’ve absolutely no memory of it. His solo career never took off and he turned to booze and cocaine to beat boredom and depression.īy the mid-1980s he was downing a bottle of Mumm champagne for breakfast and getting through 16 bottles of wine a day.
Ringo Starr's rise to fame battling illness and poverty as The Beatles drummer turns 80
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