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{{Short description|American 20th century magazine photographer}} |
{{Short description|American 20th century magazine photographer}} |
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'''Carl Fischer |
'''Carl Fischer''' (1924–2023) was an American art director and [[Autodidacticism|autodidact]] magazine photographer. |
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== Early life == |
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Fischer took painting at Cooper Union but majored in graphic design and was an art director for six years before receiving a Fulbright Scholarship. He went to England where he studied book design and typography, and used |
Carl Fischer was born in 1924 and raised in [[Brooklyn]]. Fischer took painting at [[Cooper Union]] but majored in graphic design and was an art director for six years before receiving a [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright Scholarship]]. He went to England where he studied book design and typography at the [[Central Saint Martins|Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design]] in London, and used their darkroom to teach himself photography from library books.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Belth |first=Alex |date=14 April 2023 |title=How Carl Fischer Helped Define the Esquire Look: The legendary photographer is most famous for his iconic covers, but the breadth of his work goes much deeper. |url=https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a43582669/carl-fischer-obituary/ |journal=Esquire}}</ref> |
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== ''Esquire'' == |
== ''Esquire'' == |
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Carl Fischer was formerly an advertising art director who began photographing for ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'' magazine when [[Harold Hayes]] became its editor in chief in 1963. Working with the magazine's creative consultant [[George Lois]] they devised what became amongst the most famous and provocative ''Esquire'' covers of the 1960s and early ’70s; [[Muhammad Ali]] as a martyred St Sebastian<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Castelli |first=Elizabeth A. |date=2006 |title=The Ambivalent Legacy of Violence and Victimhood: Using Early Christian Martyrs to Think With |journal=Spiritus |publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press |volume=6 |pages=1-24}}</ref> and [[Andy Warhol]] drowning in a giant can of tomato soup.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Lois |first=George |title=George Lois on His Creation of the Big Idea.. |publisher=Editions Assouline |year=2008}}</ref> By 1968 all of the covers for that year featured his photographs. His studio was a townhouse on East Eighty-third Street, New York City, where he lived.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=October 2015 |title=Carl Fischer |journal=Esquire |volume=164 |issue=3 |pages=108}}</ref> |
He graduated from The Cooper Union and studied as a Fulbright Fellow, and began his career as an advertising agency art director in New York working with Paul Rand and Herb Lubalin.Carl Fischer was formerly an advertising art director who began photographing for ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'' magazine when [[Harold Hayes]] became its editor in chief in 1963. Working with the magazine's creative consultant [[George Lois]] they devised what became amongst the most famous and provocative ''Esquire'' covers of the 1960s and early ’70s; [[Muhammad Ali]] as a martyred St Sebastian<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Castelli |first=Elizabeth A. |date=2006 |title=The Ambivalent Legacy of Violence and Victimhood: Using Early Christian Martyrs to Think With |journal=Spiritus |publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press |volume=6 |pages=1-24}}</ref> and [[Andy Warhol]] drowning in a giant can of tomato soup.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Lois |first=George |title=George Lois on His Creation of the Big Idea.. |publisher=Editions Assouline |year=2008}}</ref> By 1968 all of the covers for that year featured his photographs. His studio was a townhouse on East Eighty-third Street, New York City, where he lived.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=October 2015 |title=Carl Fischer |journal=Esquire |volume=164 |issue=3 |pages=108}}</ref> |
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After collaborating through the 1960s he and Lois, disputing who should be credited with the covers, when they're separate ways in the early 1970s.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Lois |first=George |title=George Lois on His Creation of the Big Idea.. |publisher=Editions Assouline |year=2008}}</ref> After Hayes left ''Esquire'' in 1973, Fischer gradually ceased working for the magazine. |
After collaborating through the 1960s he and Lois, disputing who should be credited with the covers, when they're separate ways in the early 1970s.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Lois |first=George |title=George Lois on His Creation of the Big Idea.. |publisher=Editions Assouline |year=2008}}</ref> After Hayes left ''Esquire'' in 1973, Fischer gradually ceased working for the magazine. |
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Fischer died on April 7, 2023 aged 98.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Genzlinger |first=Neil |date=2023-04-11 |title=Carl Fischer, Who Shot Attention-Getting Esquire Covers, Dies at 98 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/11/arts/carl-fischer-dead.html |access-date=2023-04-18 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> |
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Fischer died on April 7 2023 aged 98. |
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== Awards == |
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* Mark Twain Journalism Award |
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* Cleo Award |
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* Art Directors Club gold and silver medals |
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* Augustus St. Gaudens Medal |
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== References == |
== References == |
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== External links == |
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* [https://carlfischerphotography.com/biography.html Carl Fischer website] |
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Revision as of 23:33, 18 April 2023
Carl Fischer (1924–2023) was an American art director and autodidact magazine photographer.
Early life
Carl Fischer was born in 1924 and raised in Brooklyn. Fischer took painting at Cooper Union but majored in graphic design and was an art director for six years before receiving a Fulbright Scholarship. He went to England where he studied book design and typography at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, and used their darkroom to teach himself photography from library books.[1]
Esquire
He graduated from The Cooper Union and studied as a Fulbright Fellow, and began his career as an advertising agency art director in New York working with Paul Rand and Herb Lubalin.Carl Fischer was formerly an advertising art director who began photographing for Esquire magazine when Harold Hayes became its editor in chief in 1963. Working with the magazine's creative consultant George Lois they devised what became amongst the most famous and provocative Esquire covers of the 1960s and early ’70s; Muhammad Ali as a martyred St Sebastian[2] and Andy Warhol drowning in a giant can of tomato soup.[3] By 1968 all of the covers for that year featured his photographs. His studio was a townhouse on East Eighty-third Street, New York City, where he lived.[4]
Interviewed by the magazine in 2015 he recalled;
One of the first assignments Hayes gave me was a series of portraits of Southern segregationists. He said, 'Look, we don't want to be seen as editorializing. We want to be fair and we want to give their point of view, so don't use your goddamn wide-angle lens.' He thought that lens would make them look bad, so while I didn't use it, I did make some little changes that I think made [the segregationists] look as ugly as we all thought they were.
Among his other subjects were movie stars, artists and athletes, but the covers were often politically charged, and included war criminal William Calley surrounded by Vietnamese children,[5] or during the peak of the civil rights movement, Sonny Liston as an angry black Santa Claus.[6]
After collaborating through the 1960s he and Lois, disputing who should be credited with the covers, when they're separate ways in the early 1970s.[3] After Hayes left Esquire in 1973, Fischer gradually ceased working for the magazine.
Fischer died on April 7, 2023 aged 98.[7]
Awards
- Mark Twain Journalism Award
- Cleo Award
- Art Directors Club gold and silver medals
- Augustus St. Gaudens Medal
References
- ^ Belth, Alex (14 April 2023). "How Carl Fischer Helped Define the Esquire Look: The legendary photographer is most famous for his iconic covers, but the breadth of his work goes much deeper". Esquire.
- ^ Castelli, Elizabeth A. (2006). "The Ambivalent Legacy of Violence and Victimhood: Using Early Christian Martyrs to Think With". Spiritus. 6. The Johns Hopkins University Press: 1–24.
- ^ a b Lois, George (2008). George Lois on His Creation of the Big Idea. Editions Assouline.
- ^ "Carl Fischer". Esquire. 164 (3): 108. October 2015.
- ^ Barnett, Louise (2010). Atrocity and American Military Justice in Southeast Asia: Trial by Army (ebook ed.). Routledge. p. 206. ISBN 9781135172367.
- ^ Raiford, Leigh (2011). Imprisoned in a luminous glare : photography and the African American freedom struggle. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. pp. 142, 174, 175. ISBN 978-0-8078-8233-7. OCLC 701719774.
- ^ Genzlinger, Neil (2023-04-11). "Carl Fischer, Who Shot Attention-Getting Esquire Covers, Dies at 98". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-04-18.