Survivors also include his wife Carla, another daughter, Stephanie and his mentee, Xavier Clemente. Eisenhower’s personal photographer for the welcoming Victory Parade in New York on June 19, 1945. Army and served in the office of public relations during World War II. His daughter also said that he photographed Chubby Checker for the singer’s “The Twist” record cover.Ī native of New York City, Barris enlisted in the U.S. While on assignment for Cosmopolitan, Barris photographed Elizabeth Taylor while she filmed Cleopatra (1963) in Rome, and during his career he also shot such stars as Steve McQueen, Marlon Brando, Charlie Chaplin, Frank Sinatra, Clark Gable, Sophia Loren and Walt Disney. He said that he never believed that her death was a suicide. “When I first saw her, I thought she was the most beautiful, fantastic person I’d ever met,” Barris told the Los Angeles Daily News in 2012. Carrington’s work is part of numerous private collections across the country as well as the Kleberg Bank and King Ranch.Eight of his prints, several of which showed Monroe in a bikini or wrapped in a towel, were sold at auction in May 2015.īarris and Monroe became friends after they met on the set of The Seven-Year Itch (1955). Barris is perhaps best known for his work with Marilyn Monroe, whom he photographed in 1954 on the set of The Seven Year Itch, and in 1962 at Santa Monica beach, and in the Hollywood Hills in a series that became known as 'The Last Photos.' Barris was collaborating on a book titled Marilyn: Her Life In Her Own Wordsat the time of her death. In the age of digital photography and computerized manipulation, Carrington’s methods remain pure, staying true to the time-honored traditions of photography. Rahm Carrington’s photographs merge street, travel & lifestyle photography. Furthermore, there is uniformity in the format of each one of these portraits, so that when the collection of photographs are gathered together, there is a distinct diversity in each of the subjects, but a uniformity in the collection and depiction. In other cases we may photograph a Spurs super-fan, or a restaurant owner, whereby their uniform is the clothes they wear and the image they portray. In some cases, this may be a Catholic Brother, Soldier or Escaramuza wearing a prescribed uniform.
In Uniform 300, Rahm and Alice explore the idea of a personal uniform.
In this melting pot of culture it is a way to identify oneself. We wear our “uniform” with pride, as a way to let others know who we are, where we came from, what we do, who we love and what we stand for. Today, we see people turning back to their roots to find their own unique identity. The “flattening” of the world has had many benefits, but it is contributing to this homogenization. One can travel across the world and see the same fashions, trends and iconography.
In this rapidly growing world of free-flowing information, we are seeing a homogenization of culture.
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