Ernest A. Bachrach (1899 – 1973) was an American photographer.
Bachrach was born in 1899 and died in 1973.[1][2] He attended Stuyvesant High School.[3] He worked at Famous Players–Lasky "right after" World War I.[4][3] Around 1923, he was working in Paramount Pictures's studio in Astoria, Queens, taking stills for Gloria Swanson films.[5] When Swanson departed New York in 1926 after forming her own company, she asked Bachrach to come with her.[1]
As of 1946, Bachrach had been a still photographer at RKO Pictures for 18 years.[6] He founded RKO's still photography department in 1928 following RKO's merger with Film Booking Offices of America and headed the still photography department at RKO as of 1935.[7] He took almost all the stills of Katharine Hepburn in the 1930s, while she was with RKO.[8][9]
Bachrach used Graflex cameras "to capture spontaneity".[1]
Scholar Patricia J. Fanning calls Bachrach "one of the premier portrait photographers in Hollywood".[10]
Publications
edit- Bachrach, Ernest A. (September 1932). "Personality and Pictorialism in Portraiture". American Cinematographer. 13 (5): 6–7, 28.
- Bachrach, Ernest A. (March 1940). "Review of U.S. Camera, 1940". International Photographer. 12 (2): 25.
Notes
edit- ^ a b c Shields 2013, p. 339.
- ^ Barron, Stephanie; Bernstein, Sheri; Fort, Ilene Susan, eds. (2000). Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900–2000. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art. p. 284. ISBN 0-520-22764-6. OCLC 44454648.
- ^ a b Fanning 2008, p. 196.
- ^ Barnes, Eleanor (May 26, 1936). "Soul Painter". Los Angeles Daily News. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Shields 2013, pp. 239–240.
- ^ Hall, Theda; Hall, Emerson (March 1946). "Shooting the Cover". Popular Photography. 18 (3): 47–49.
- ^ Cavanaugh, Irene (August 17, 1935). "Heavy Outlay in Making 'Still' Pictures". Los Angeles Daily News. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Trent, Paul (1972). The Image Makers: Sixty Years of Hollywood Glamour. McGraw-Hill. p. 17. ISBN 0-07-065138-8. OCLC 257096.
- ^ Pepper, Terence (1989). The Man Who Shot Garbo: The Hollywood Photographs of Clarence Sinclair Bull. Simon & Schuster. p. 247n153. ISBN 0-671-69700-5. OCLC 20461098.
- ^ Fanning 2008, p. xxiii.
Sources
edit- Fanning, Patricia J. (2008). Through an Uncommon Lens: The Life and Photography of F. Holland Day. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-1-61376-088-8. OCLC 794701604.
- Shields, David S. (June 18, 2013). Still: American Silent Motion Picture Photography. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-01343-5.
Further reading
edit- Mallory, Mary (September 22, 2014). "Ernest Bachrach Defines RKO Glamour". LA Daily Mirror.
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