Hollywood
celebrity photographer Sid Avery dies
at 83
Hollywood
celebrity photographer Sid Avery died of cancer at 83
on July 1, 2002. He captured the Hollywood stars of the 1950s
and 1960s in their private moments.
Avery's
intimate photos of Marlon Brando eating breakfast, Elizabeth
Taylor sunning herself on the set of "Giant" in 1955, Audrey
Hepburn taking a bike ride with her dog, and Rock Hudson fresh
from the shower, gave a movie-hungry public a glimpse of the "ordinary" lives
of celebrities in an age when stars were cherished rather than
chased.
After
his "retirement" in the mid-1980s, he founded the Motion Picture
and Television Photo Archive (MPTV) to save for posterity the
work of numerous Hollywood photographers whose prints, stills
and negatives were being lost through indifference or neglect.
Click
on these links and check out just a sample of some of his awesome
pix:
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