Toronto-born photographer Douglas Kirkland, known for Marilyn Monroe pics, dies at 88TORONTO — Canadian photographer Douglas Kirkland captured Judy Garland, Audrey Hepburn and an array of other Hollywood legends, but it was the young photographer's intimate shots of Marilyn Monroe taken in her final year that changed everything for him. The cameraman, who earned the trust of many celebrities, died Sunday in Los Angeles, his wife Francoise Kirkland confirmed. Kirkland took his first photograph when he was seven or eight years old on a Brownie box camera. But it was those images of Monroe, taken the same year, that became some of her most memorable. "What I had in mind and hoped for, as a young photographer, was to get something really sizzling — I was almost embarrassed to say that," he remembered.

Source: National Post October 05, 2022 07:22 UTC