John Florea

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John "Johnny" Florea (born May 28, 1916 in Alliance , Ohio , † August 25, 2000 in Las Vegas ) was an American photographer and film director. Romanian origin.

Life

Johnny Florea grew up in Los Angeles and worked as a photographer in Hollywood until 1941 . After the American entry into the Second World War in 1941, he was accredited by the US Army as a war photographer . He witnessed the Tarawa and Rabaul battles in the Pacific . His photos appeared as a cover on Life . In Europe, he accompanied the Allies during the liberation of Paris and the conquest of Germany until VE Day . With the units of the 3rd Armored Division he arrived on April 11, 1945 in the Boelcke barracks subcamp of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp . He photographed the survivors and the many dead and their burial on April 14th by residents of Nordhausen . Florea photographed the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri in September .

After the war, Florea was on the editorial board of the San Francisco Examiner , but continued to work as a photographer primarily for Life magazine and Collier's magazine . As a photographer of film stars and starlets, he took pictures with Marilyn Monroe in 1951 , who was still at the beginning of her career. Florea switched to the film business herself in the 1960s. By the mid-1980s he produced over twenty film strips, mainly for television series such as The People of Shiloh Ranch , My Friend Ben , Bonanza , CHiPs , The Lady with the Colt , A Duke rarely comes alone . He also directed the feature films Brink of Disaster! , Pickup on 101 , Invisible Strangler , Where's Willie? and Hot Child in the City and various television series. His filmmaking ranged between kitsch and documentary, so he received a Daytime Emmy Award in 1974 for a contribution to the ABC Afterschool Special .

John Florea: Portrait of the Actress Marcia Van Dyke (1947)

Florea was married to Ruth Johnson Florea and had two daughters.

In 2013 it became known that Florea's war photos of a 16-year-old, crying Air Force soldier had been taken in Hüttenberg-Rechtenbach in Hesse and not, as claimed by the later GDR citizen Hans-Georg Henke in 1988 in the DEFA documentary film Two Germans , on the Eastern Front . The image entered the iconography of anti-war images.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Myrna Oliver: John Florea; WWII Photographer Who Became TV Director , Los Angeles Times, September 1, 2000.
  2. ^ Joe Maddalena: Drama, Action, Romance: The Hollywood Auction , profilesinhistory.com, page 55.
  3. ↑ John Florea: German male civilians being forced by the Allies to dig graves for the prisoners killed at the Nordhausen concentration camp ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , April 14, 1945. At Buchenwald Memorial. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dora.de
  4. ↑ Marilyn's Photographers: John Florea , at tarahanks, accessed July 8, 2013.
  5. ↑ Gitta Nickel : Zwei Deutsche (1988) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  6. ↑ Michael Breuer: The desperate face. The story behind one of the most famous pictures of World War II , in: Frankfurter Rundschau , June 29, 2013, pp. 23-25.
  7. ^ A farm in Rechtenbach - and a photo that went around the world , in: Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung , July 1, 2013.
  8. ↑ Florea's photo is subject to copyright protection, an image is available from Getty Images .
personal data
SURNAME Florea, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Florea, Johnny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer and film director
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Alliance , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 2000
Place of death Las Vegas