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In
1961, Jurgen moved to Paris to work as assistant to the famous photographer
and director William Klein, and found himself a part of the city's
influential rive gauche community. In September of
that year John Lennon and Paul McCartney came to visit him there.
It proved to be a very influential week. They bought themselves
many of the fashionable clothes he was sporting, and it was there
that John and Paul asked Jurgen to cut their hair like his own,
and it was he - in his Montparnasse hotel-room - who turned their
hairstyles into what became famous worldwide as the 'Beatle cut'.
During the early Sixties, Jurgen worked for Klein as a fashion photographer.
For himself, however, he made studies of the street youth and the
environment of their lives, to serious acclaim. Pictures he took
of Nureyev, his first 'celebrity', in 1966 are considered by many
to be best taken of dancer-artist. By the late Sixties, Jurgen was
a stills photographer on European movie sets. Already he was working
with the famous director Alain Resnais; and amongst his subjects
were Catherine Deneuve and Yves Montand.
On a film shoot in New York in 1971, Jurgen fell in love with the
city and did not return to Europe with the film crew. He became
a still photographer on America's East Coast, and stayed in vibrant
New York for some years, making his name in the Eighties and Nineties
as one of the most highly sought-after film-star and movie- still
photographers.
Jurgen moved to Hollywood in 1988, there becoming a regular under
directors ranging from Francis Coppola and Barry Levinson to Roman
Polanski, Lawrence Kastan and Norman Jewison. His images are instantly
recognizable throughout the world. His iconographic photos rank
among them studies of Arnold Schwartzenegger, Madonna, Barbra Streisand,
Nastassja Kinski, Jeanne Moreau, Robert Redford, Isabella Adjani,
Dirk Bogarde, William Burroughs and John Travolta. His photos are
always front-of-house material.
Copyright 1999/2000, Genesis Publications.
Jurgen
Vollmer Original Photographs
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