Peter Basch

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article or the following section is not adequately provided with supporting documents ( e.g. individual evidence ). Information without sufficient evidence could be removed soon. Please help Wikipedia by researching the information and including good evidence.

Peter Basch (born September 21, 1921 in Berlin , † March 15, 2004 in New York City ) was an American star photographer .

Life

Peter Basch was born in Berlin as the son of the actor and director Felix Basch and the operetta singer Grete Freund . One of his father's cousins ​​was the famous tenor Richard Tauber . After the National Socialists came to power in 1933 , the almost 12-year-old emigrated with his parents from Berlin to the USA . The family initially lived in New York City and in 1935 father went to Hollywood . Basch only played in films again from 1942 and died in 1944. Peter Basch served in the American military during this time. From 1942 to 1946 he was a member of the First Motion Picture Unit in Los Angeles , a unit of the American military that produced propaganda films and war documentaries.

Peter Basch gained his first experiences as a child photographer as early as 1939 and from 1941 as assistant to the photographer Laszlo Willinger . Willinger worked as a star photographer for the MGM film studio . In 1945 Peter Basch founded his first photo studio in New York and specialized in the photography of film stars. His photos have been published by glossy magazines around the world. His customers were magazines such as Elle , Esquire , Life , Look and Playboy . In Germany his photographs were published by Stern , Brigitte or Quick . In addition to his studio recordings of stars, he has also accompanied the film work of directors such as Joseph L. Mankiewicz , George Stevens , Elia Kazan , John Ford and Federico Fellini . He photographed the shooting of giants for George Stevens and so he photographed James Dean during his last film shortly before his accidental death . Later in the 1960s the work of Roman Polański , François Truffaut or Roger Vadim .

At the end of the 1960s, Basch finished his work as a glossy photographer. New Hollywood no longer demanded his services and the liberalization of pornography made the erotic photo books composed from his photos obsolete. At the beginning of the 1970s he also closed his photo studio in New York. He moved from photography to literature and became an agent for young authors in the US and Europe. He was also committed to the interests of the American Indians . His photos are now hanging in numerous museums around the world; in Germany in the Museum Ludwig in Cologne , in the USA in the Museum of Moving Image and in the Library of Performing Arts in New York. Peter Basch was married to the Canadian actress Jacqueline Bertrand (* 1935). They had a daughter and a son.

List of stars who were photographed by Peter Basch

Photo volumes (selection)

The photo books published in Germany:

  • Shape and design. Heering, Seebruck am Chiemsee 1958.
  • Magical beauty: portrait, pinup, nudes. Translation Werner von Grünau. Verl. D. European library, Bonn 1962.
  • Young beauty: portrait, dance, nudes. Translation by Werner von Grünau. Verl. D. European Library, Bonn 1964.
  • Exotic beauty: portrait, dance, nudes. Translation by Werner von Grünau. Verl. D. European Library, Bonn 1965.
  • The act in light and shadow. Heering, Seebruck am Chiemsee 1965.
  • erotic moments. Verl. D. European Library, Bonn 1967.
  • Girls. Heyne, Munich 1972.
  • Michael Petzel (Ed.): Stars !. Peter Basch - photographs from the fifties and sixties. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89602-470-1 .
  • Michael Petzel (Ed.): Seduction: the beautiful women of the sixties. Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2005.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Basch, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American star photographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 2004
Place of death New York City