![]() Ringo is the cosy Beatle, the good-old-moptop-Beatle-boy who is nearing his thirtieth year - as everyone keeps reminding him. If John is the Beatle the public has singled out for the brunt of ridicule and contempt, then Ringo is the Beatle they cling to for reassurance as the flack of shattered images falls about their heads. “You’ve never done, me before,” says Ringo as welcome, begging a few minutes grace to get his circulation on the move. When, eventually, the familiar Beatle face appears grinning at the rear it is a Ringo attired in tweedy plus fours and deeerstalker and accompanied by the sound of stomping feet shaking mud from a hefty pair of labourer’s boots. “First in the world - ingeniously incognito” gloat the publicity people with justifiable pride. The press room is inside what looks from the outside like a much travelled furniture truck and in fact is, except that inside it is plushly furnished with heater, phone link, desk, leather settee and well-stocked bar. Out there on Chobham Common in wildest Surrey they are on location filming a Beatle and an ex-Goon in “The Magic Christian.”Īs the only route out to the film unit is not so much a road as a switchback over a mudbath, the wisest move is to adjourn to the mobile press office parked among a cluster of vehicles off the road while a courier with a walkie-talkie is dispatched to relay our presence to Mr Starr. A viciously cold wind sweeps in across the common, buffeting the white tent in the distance and the group of moving figures that together form an oasis of life amid the unfriendly sea of bracken and stubbly brown grass. NMExclusive in depth film location interview with RINGO We`re not mop tops any moreĪ DESERTED Centurion tank and a “dummy” tree up-turned in a ditch provide the first bizarre indications that we’ve arrived. There probably should be more people like Mr. ![]() A man you could have fun with, have a drink with, completely forgetting that he was in the biggest group in history while you were at it. Starr is a very likeable guy, indeed! He always struck me as very down to earth. When not traveling the globe on assignment, his home and studio is in the Hollywood Hills where he lives with his wife and business partner Françoise.Mr. Kirkland’s assignments have taken him to all continents in the world (with the exception of Antarctica) where he worked on subjects as varied as: Astronomy in Chile, to The Trans Siberian Railroad, and fashion in Bali. Among his current book projects are a Black & White volume “When We Were Young”. In October 2007, Douglas received an Honorary Master of Fine Arts Degree from Brooks Institute of Photography for his deep commitment and dedication to his profession. Some of the awards he has received include a “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the American S.O.C., Photographer of the Year from the PMA, a Lucie Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Entertainment Photography from the IPA in 2003, The Golden Eye of Russia in April 2006 and a Life Time Achievement Award from CAPIC in his native Toronto Canada in May 2006. He is a member of the prestigious Hewlett Packard’s Photo Influencers and Canon’s Explorers of Light and as well as an associate member of the American Society of Cinematographers. In September of 2008, Vanity Fair Italy organized a retrospective of his work at the Museum of the Triennale in Milan. His work is also in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian, the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra Australia, the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Eastman House in Rochester and the Houston Center for Photography and the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles. ![]() His exhibition of Freeze Frame is now in the permanent collection of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills. “Michael Jackson – the Making of Thriller” and his most recent monograph “A Life in Pictures”.ĭouglas Kirkland’s fine arts photography has been exhibited all over the world. Some of his books are “Light Years”, “Icons”, “Legends”, “Body Stories”, “An Evening With Marilyn”, the best selling “James Cameron’s Titanic”, “Freeze Frame”, a decade by decade look behind the scenes from 50 years photographing the entertainment industry and “Coco Chanel, Three Weeks”. Among them, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”, “2001 A Space Odyssey”, “Sound of Music”, “Out of Africa”, “Titanic” “Moulin Rouge”, “Australia” and “The Great Gatsby” Baz Luhrmann’s film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire. Through the years, Douglas Kirkland has worked on the sets of over one hundred motion pictures. Among his assignments were essays on Greece, Lebanon and Japan as well as fashion and celebrity work, photographing Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlene Dietrich among others. ![]() He joined Look Magazine in his early twenties, and later Life Magazine during the golden age of 60’s/70’s photojournalism. Douglas Kirkland was born in Toronto Canada.
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