Ernest Bachrach

Ernest A. Bachrach (1899 – 1973) was an American photographer.

Bachrach was born in 1899 and died in 1973.[1][2] He attended Stuyvesant High School.[3] He worked at Famous Players–Lasky "right after" World War I.[4][3] Around 1923, he was working in Paramount Pictures's studio in Astoria, Queens, taking stills for Gloria Swanson films.[5] When Swanson departed New York in 1926 after forming her own company, she asked Bachrach to come with her.[1]

As of 1946, Bachrach had been a still photographer at RKO Pictures for 18 years.[6] He founded RKO's still photography department in 1928 following RKO's merger with Film Booking Offices of America and headed the still photography department at RKO as of 1935.[7] He took almost all the stills of Katharine Hepburn in the 1930s, while she was with RKO.[8][9]

Bachrach used Graflex cameras "to capture spontaneity".[1]

Scholar Patricia J. Fanning calls Bachrach "one of the premier portrait photographers in Hollywood".[10]

Publications
  • Bachrach, Ernest A. (September 1932). "Personality and Pictorialism in Portraiture". American Cinematographer. 13 (5): 6–7, 28.
  • Bachrach, Ernest A. (March 1940). "Review of U.S. Camera, 1940". International Photographer. 12 (2): 25.

Notes
  1. Shields 2013, p. 339.
  2. Barron, Stephanie; Bernstein, Sheri; Fort, Ilene Susan, eds. (2000). Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900–2000. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art. p. 284. ISBN 0-520-22764-6. OCLC 44454648.
  3. Fanning 2008, p. 196.
  4. Barnes, Eleanor (May 26, 1936). "Soul Painter". Los Angeles Daily News. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. Shields 2013, pp. 239–240.
  6. Hall, Theda; Hall, Emerson (March 1946). "Shooting the Cover". Popular Photography. 18 (3): 47–49.
  7. Cavanaugh, Irene (August 17, 1935). "Heavy Outlay in Making 'Still' Pictures". Los Angeles Daily News. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. Trent, Paul (1972). The Image Makers: Sixty Years of Hollywood Glamour. McGraw-Hill. p. 17. ISBN 0-07-065138-8. OCLC 257096.
  9. Pepper, Terence (1989). The Man Who Shot Garbo: The Hollywood Photographs of Clarence Sinclair Bull. Simon & Schuster. p. 247n153. ISBN 0-671-69700-5. OCLC 20461098.
  10. Fanning 2008, p. xxiii.

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