Leo Fuchs: Special Photographer from the Golden Age of Hollywood Hardcover - 2010

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Leo Fuchs was born in Vienna to a family of pastry chefs in 1929 and moved to New York with his family at the age of ten. He sold his first picture (of Eleanor Roosevelt) for $5 when he was barely a teenager, then quit school at 14 to apprentice at Globe Photos in New York. He struck out on his own two years later, working in Broadway nightclubs and as a glamour photographer for newspapers and magazines. After serving as a Signal Corps cameraman in Germany in the early 50s, Fuchs stayed in Europe and was hired as a still photographer on his first film, Magic Fire, directed by William Dieterle.

Bruce Weber is a world-renowned art, documentary, and fashion photographer, filmmaker, and clothing designer. Weber came to prominence after being featured heavily in GQ and Interview magazines, and has created iconic advertising campaigns for Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, and Abercrombie & Fitch, among others. He has directed over five films including two full-length features—Chop Suey (2000) and A Letter to True (2004)—as well as a handful of music videos. He is also the author of several books including Branded Youth (Bullfinch, 1997) and Blood Sweat and Tears (teNeues, 2005). 

Alexandre Fuchs is an exhibited fine arts photographer whose work looks at the impact of accelerating change on the human experience. Alex is also a filmmaker whose most recent award-winning documentary film, Hijos de la Guerra, tells the story of the notorious Salvadoran street gang the Mara Salvatucha (MS-13), which has been singled out by the FBI as the fastest-growing and most violent gang in the world. A French-American national, Alex Fuchs grew
up in Paris and lives between New York and France.

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