When not traveling the globe on assignment, his home and studio is in the Hollywood Hills where he lives with his wife and business partner Françoise. 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. Includes two-page cue sheets for interview with Ringo Starr. 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. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1969 Vinyl release of The Magic Christian. 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. You can subscribe to Rock’s Backpages here.Douglas Kirkland was born in Toronto Canada. Hip people will dig it and the straight people and serious music critics will too.” I think this is the tune that will impress most people. The harmony was very difficult to do, we had to really learn it. I found some sort of release and the song just came.”ĭespite the Quiet Beatle’s high opinion for Starr’s work and his own, it’s John Lennon’s ‘ Because’ which Harrison reveals to be his favorite Abbey Road song: “ I think this is my favorite track on the album, it’s so simple, especially the lyrics. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for RINGO STARR PETER SELLERS THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN Cassette Tape 1969 Soundtrack Rare at the best. Being in Eric’s garden felt like playing hooky from school. We’d been through real hell with business, and it was all very heavy. It was written on a very nice sunny day in Eric Clapton‘s garden. “ ’Here Comes the Sun’, the first cut on side two,” George shares, “ is the other song I wrote for the album. So Ringo writes his cosmic songs without knowing it.”Īt this point Ringo Starr, who is sitting across the room from him at Abbey Road Studios, grins.Ĭonversation then turns to one of Geroge Harrison’s own compositions from 11 th Beatles album Abbey Road, ‘ Here Comes the Sun’. “ Lines like ‘Resting our head on the seabed’ and ‘We’ll be warm beneath the storm’,” George beams, “ it makes me realize that when you get deep into your consciousness it’s very peaceful. I find very deep meaning in the lyrics which Ringo probably doesn’t even know about.” On the surface, it’s a daft kids’ song, but I find the lyrics very meaningful. He mainly likes country music, so this has a country and western feel. “ But knows about three chords,” Harrison continues. “ Ringo gets very bored playing the drums, so at home he plays the piano,” Beatle George Harrison shares with Ritchie Yorke of the Detroit Free Press in a 1969 interview recently unearthed by music journalism archive Rock’s Backpages.
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