Douglas Kirkland

Douglas Kirkland (born 1934 - 2022) is a prolific Canadian photographer who has lived and worked most of his life in the USA. Starting his career at the age of 24 with Look magazine, alongside the likes of Stanley Kubrick and Norman Rockwell, he later moved to Life magazine, helping to define the golden age of American photojournalism during the 1960s. Kirkland is perhaps best known for his intimate portraits in an inimitable style. From Charlie Chaplin (whose portrait by Kirkland hangs in London’s National Portrait Gallery) to Marilyn Monroe (Kirkland’s sensual images of Monroe wrapped in a white sheet graced the 25th-anniversary cover of Look), Audrey Hepburn and Orson Welles to Stephen Hawking - Kirkland’s archive reads like a who’s who of 20th-century life.