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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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