Lejaren Hiller (photographer)
Lejaren Hiller (actually John Arthur Hiller ; born July 3, 1880 in Milwaukee / Wisconsin , † May 23, 1969 in New York City ) was an American photographer and illustrator.
Hiller studied industrial design and advertising at the Art Institute of Chicago after high school . In 1906 he went to New York and opened a studio there. During this time he took the name Lejaren à Hiller. He produced illustrations for magazines such as Pearson's , Collier's , Nash's , Good Housekeeping , Cosmopolitan , The Saturday Evening Post and Life and, for the first time in 1911, for a pulp magazine , Short Stories . Later he discovered the technique of artistic composition of photographs and thus became the "father of American photo illustration".
In the early 1920s he produced several silent films ( The Sleep of Cyma Roget , 1920; The Beggar Maid , 1921; Hope , 1922) before his most demanding work was a series of photo tableaux as an illustration for Surgery Through The Ages . The work was published in a luxurious folio edition in 1927 and as a hardcover association in 1933.
Between 1924 and 1939, Hiller created hundreds of hand-colored black and white photos as illustrations for Pulp magazine Flynn's Weekly, aka Detective Fiction Weekly . During the Second World War he took part in American military propaganda with posters. After the war he mainly worked as a photographer of the New York jazz scene. Hiller is the father of the composer Lejaren Hiller .
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- Field Guide To Wild American Pulp Artists - Lejaren Hiller
- Jeffrey Sward Photographer - Lejaren A. Hiller Sr.
- Luminous Lint - Lejaren à Hiller
- Lejaren Hiller in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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SURNAME | Hiller, Lejaren |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hiller, John Arthur |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American photographer and illustrator |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1880 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Milwaukee |
DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 1969 |
Place of death | New York City |