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Leo Fuchs is a Hollywood veteran who spent over 40 years shooting some of the most moving and memorable images ever made of 50s and 60s film icons. Fuchs introduction to moviemaking came as one of the world s leading special photographers on movie sets in Europe and North America. Starting as a freelance magazine photographer, he was one of the rare outsiders invited onto movie sets, where he often befriended actors, actresses, and filmmakers and captured candid shots both during shooting and after hours while socializing with the stars. With the support of his dear friend Cary Grant, Fuchs gave up photography in 1964 and spent the next 20 years as a motion picture producer. uchs' photographs of Hollywood s undisputed heyday are collected for the first time in Leo Fuchs- Special Photographer from the Golden Age of Hollywood, along with a rare essay by photography great, Bruce Weber. Film icons Rock Hudson, Audrey Hepburn, Paul Newman, Gregory Peck, Sean Connery, Shirley MacLaine, Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, Cary Grant, and never-before-published photographs of To Kill a Mockingbird s Harper Lee as well as such legendary directors as Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, Fred Zinnema

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It's full of gorgeous, iconic images of gorgeous, iconic people. <br>Gawker <br><br> This beautifully produced coffee-table volume shares...vivid, candid portraits by Leo Fuchs, a 'special photographer' (and later a producer) who gained the trust of, and won extraordinary access to, some of Hollywood's biggest stars of the 1950s and early '60s. <br>Seattle Times

It's full of gorgeous, iconic images of gorgeous, iconic people. Gawker If the cover shot of Paul Newman isn't bait enough to buy, the ensuing collection of behind-the-scenes images of Tinseltown's greatest generation (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Marlon Brando) snapped by Hollywood veteran photog and producer Leo Fuchs should reel you in. Daily Candy This beautifully produced coffee-table volume shares...vivid, candid portraits by Leo Fuchs, a 'special photographer' (and later a producer) who gained the trust of, and won extraordinary access to, some of Hollywood's biggest stars of the 1950s and early '60s. Seattle Times

It's full of gorgeous, iconic images of gorgeous, iconic people. <br>Gawker <br><br> If the cover shot of Paul Newman isn't bait enough to buy, the ensuing collection of behind-the-scenes images of Tinseltown's greatest generation (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Marlon Brando) snapped by Hollywood veteran photog and producer Leo Fuchs should reel you in. <br>Daily Candy <br><br> This beautifully produced coffee-table volume shares...vivid, candid portraits by Leo Fuchs, a 'special photographer' (and later a producer) who gained the trust of, and won extraordinary access to, some of Hollywood's biggest stars of the 1950s and early '60s. <br>Seattle Times

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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.

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