Ernest A. Bachrach
Persona
fotografo
New York
Bachrach ha lavorato alla Famous Players-Lasky, società cinematografica, subito dopo la prima guerra mondiale ed è stato fotografo di scena alla RKO Pictures, uno dei 5 grandi studi di Hollywood, per 18 anni. Nel 1928 ha fondato il dipartimento di fotografia di RKO, in seguito alla fusione di RKO con Film Booking Offices of America e lo ha diretto dal 1935. Ha scattato quasi tutte le foto di Katharine Hepburn negli anni '30, mentre lei era con la RKO. Utilizzava per i suoi scatti le fotocamere Graflex. E' stato definito uno dei migliori fotografi ritrattisti di Hollywood.
Biografia
New York
Ernest A. Bachrach (1899 – 1973) was an American photographer.
Bachrach was born in 1899 and died in 1973.[1][2] He attended Stuyvesant High School.[3] He worked at Famous Players-Lasky "right after" World War I.[4][3] Around 1923, he was working in Paramount Pictures's studio in Astoria, Queens, taking stills for Gloria Swanson films.[5] When Swanson departed New York in 1926 after forming her own company, she asked Bachrach to come with her.[1]
As of 1946, Bachrach had been a still photographer at RKO Pictures for 18 years.[6] He founded RKO's still photography department in 1928 following RKO's merger with Film Booking Offices of America and headed the still photography department at RKO as of 1935.[7] He took almost all the stills of Katharine Hepburn in the 1930s, while she was with RKO.[8][9]
Bachrach used Graflex cameras "to capture spontaneity".[1]
Scholar Patricia J. Fanning calls Bachrach "one of the premier portrait photographers in Hollywood".[10]
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