Iconic Hollywood Movie Photographer Bob Willoughby at Legende Celebrity Art

Hollywoood movie photographer Bob Willoughby named “The Man that virtually invented the photojournalistic motion picture still” by Popular Photography.

Legende Celebrity Art are delighted to be working with our friend Bob Willoughby the worlds leading Hollywood photographer of the 50′s, 60′s and 70′s. Born in Los Angeles in 1927, Bob was the first ‘outside’ photographer for the film studios to be hired to get space for them in the magazines, starting in 1954 with Warner Brothers which created a 20 year relationship. Just some of the films that Bob worked on; The Man With The Golden Arm, Raintree County, Saint Joan, Bonjour Tristesse, Green Mansions, Can Can, The Notorious Lady, The Children’s Hour, I Could Go On Singing, Paris When It Sizzles, My Fair Lady, The Great Race, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate, Rosemary’s Baby, The Lion in Winter, Goodbye Mr.Chips, Catch 22, They Shoot Horses Don’t They?

Bob Willoughby devised a number of technical innovations to get the photographs he needed. For example he financed the first successful sound blip of a still-camera, which is now common on most movie sets. Bob was the only photographer working on films at the time, to use radio-controlled cameras, allowing him unprecedented access for certain shots. He had made special brackets that held his still camera on or over the Panavision cameras.

Bob was presented with the Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Still Photography for Motion Pictures, in New York 2004. His photographs are included in the collections of The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, The National Portrait Gallery, London, The National Media Museum, Bradford, UK. The Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris. Musee de la Photographie, Charleroim Belgium. The Academy of Motion Pictures Art and Sciences, Beverley Hills, CA, The Museum of Modern Art, Film Department, NYC, The Tate Gallery Collection, London, and The Musee de la Photographie et de I’Image, Nice, France.

Legende Celebrity Art Chairman Lord David Evans of Watford worked with Bob Willoughby to produce a series of amazing quality and top award winning calendars in the 1990′s and have remained friends since. We are due to visit Bob Willoughby at his home in France August time to collect some prints so if there is anything unusual or just a simple request do not hesitate to let us know! richardevans@legendecelebrityart.com

Prices start at £1,600 12 x 16 including vat, high quality beautiful framing and delivery anywhere in the United Kingdom. All of Bob Willoughby’s photographs are signed and numbered in pencil on the back, and includes the date of printing. Vintage print prices available on request. We shall shortly be adding more sizes available smaller and larger to our shopping cart.

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