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 movie stars 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 went from set photographer to producer in 1964 and spent the next 20 years as a motion picture producer.
The resulting intimate photographs from Hollywood’s undisputed heyday are collected for the first time in Special Photographer: From the Golden Age of Hollywood 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 Zinnemann, and Alfred Hitchcock all
appear unguarded—unlike any other photographs of the era. These images are complemented by pages of insider details taken from the recorded remembrances of Leo Fuchs himself.
Special Photographer offers never-before-seen, insider photographs of the glamorous world of post-war Hollywood. It serves as a valuable piece of history and a reference for the
glamour, style, attitudes, and personalities of the dream factory’s elite that define modern-day celebrity. With a career spent steadily rising through the ranks of production, from outsider to
boss, Leo Fuchs saw it all. Now his personal vision has been captured, for the world to enjoy in
Special Photographer.
