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During his fifty-year career, Leigh Wiener photographed every US president from Truman to Reagan, Hollywood legends from Marilyn to Marlon, musicians from Miles to Sinatra, and scores of writers, athletes, politicians, and industry titans. Among Wiener's most unforgettable images are a series of portraits of singer-songwriter Johnny Cash taken in Los Angeles in the early 1960s, showing Cash in his iconoclastic, legendary prime.
Leigh Wiener(1929 1993) grew up in New York City. By fifteen, he had published his first photo in Collier's, and he went on to publish in TIME, Life, Fortune, The Los Angeles Times-for which he was a staff photographer-and many other national magazines and newspapers.
Graham Nashis a co-founder of the rock super group Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. A retrospective book of his photographs, Eye to Eye: Photographs by Graham Nash, was published in 2004.
Synopsis
During his fifty-year career, Leigh Wiener photographed every US president from Truman to Reagan, Hollywood legends from Marilyn to Marlon, musicians from Miles to Sinatra, and scores of writers, athletes, politicians, and industry titans. Among Wiener’s most unforgettable images are a series of portraits of singer--songwriter Johnny Cash taken in Los Angeles in the early 1960s, showing Cash in his iconoclastic, legendary prime.
Synopsis
Unpublished photographs of Johnny Cash in his early 1960s prime.
About the Author
During his 50-year career as a photographer and photojournalist, Leigh Wiener (1929-1993) photographed every US president from Truman to Reagan, Hollywood legends from Marilyn to Marlon, musicians from Miles to Sinatra, and scores of poets, scientists, writers, athletes, and industry titans.