Bruno Bernard Bücher

He has been called the ""Rembrandt of photography"" and the ""King of glamour."" Though he also photographed male luminaries such as John Wayne, Gregory Peck, and Elvis Presley, Bernard of Hollywood made his name doing portraits of female stars and starlets of the 1950s such as Anita Ekberg, Jayne Mansfield, Brigitte Bardot, and Marilyn Monroe. He fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s, migrating to California and eventually establishing himself in Hollywood.

The daughter of the late Sunset Boulevard photographer narrates an illustrated tribute that chronicles Marilyn Monroe's professional relationship with Bernard through photographs he took of her over a period of seventeen years.

Er gilt als ihr Entdecker und schoss auch das weltberühmte Foto von Marilyn Monroe im weißen Kleid über dem U- Bahn-Gitter: der legendäre Hollywood-Pin-up-Fotograf Bruno Bernard. Ihm fiel die noch unbekannte Schönheit eines Tages auf der Straße auf und er vereinbarte spontan einen Fototermin mit ihr. Dieser großformatige Bildband wird von Bernards Tochter herausgegeben und zeigt viele unbekannte Fotos aus der frühen Schaffenszeit der 'blonden Göttin'. Aus Faksimile-Dokumenten, Kommentaren von Zeitzeugen und zahlreichen Anekdoten entsteht ein dichtes, intimes Bild von Monroes Leben und Charakter. Vom ersten Shooting über die Highlights ihrer Karriere bis zu ihrem sagenumwobenen Ende.

A collection of 25 photographs of red-haired female performers, both famous and obscure, from the Hollywood of the 1940s-60s. The photographer, Bruno Bernard, was well-known for his portraits of Hollywood stars, and is credited with promoting pin-up photography to a recognized art form.

Immortalisée par Bruno Bernard, le photographe de l'âge d'or d'Hollywood, la métamorphose de Norma Jean Baker en Marilyn Monroe, superbement mise en lumière en star planétaire. De 1946 à 1962, de la naissance de l'icône à celle du mythe, un hommage à sa beauté intemporelle.

The glamorous denizens of Hollywood in the fifties were doing what the whole of America could only dream about. Los Angeles was the permanently sunny city where the stars came out to play, while the rest of the country eagerly awaited the latest issue of Hollywood Dream Girls to pore over gorgeous in-ups of their favourite icons. When it came to these 'glamour' shots, the man they called Bernard of Hollywood was the best photographer in town. He was a German emigrant, seeing American stars with a fresh eye. He fled before WW II, hopping onto a boat bound for LA instead of Brazil after watching a Clark Gable movie. He was hooked on fame and celebrity, teaching himself into the professional studio game, and helping to school other budding amateurs with his accessible how-to guide (included in this volume). After the war, America was booming; the films and adverts reflected this new optimism, and Bernard was the lens man of the Technicolor era. He was instrumental in discovering Marilyn Monroe -- and soon became famous himself with his classic collection of the most beautiful women of the time, "" One Step Beyond.""The stars never shone as brightly as they did under Bernard's light bulbs.