Leigh Austen Wiener (August 25, 1929 - May 11, 1993) was an American photographer and photojournalist. In a career that spanned five decades, he covered hundreds of people and events. His images captured the public and private moments of entertainers, musicians, artists, authors, poets, scientists, sports figures, politicians, industrialists, and heads of state, including every U.S. president from

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and illustrated every sector of industry including farming, steel mills, auto manufacturing, aerospace, medicine, research, early computing and semi-conductor manufacturing.

Biography

Leigh A. Wiener was born in New York City to Grace and Willard Wiener. Wiener's lifelong love of cameras and photography began at an early age. Willard Wiener was a newspaper man who frequently brought family friend and colleague

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—the news photographer better known as Weegee—to the house for Sunday dinner. Felig always had a packet of his latest pictures with him which he would lay out, asking a young Leigh for his opinion. By the age of 14, Wiener sold his first commercial photograph to ''Collier’s Weekly''. In 1946, he moved to Los Angeles. While attending UCLA, where he majored in Political Science, Wiener also worked as a news photographer for ''The Los Angeles Times''. After college, he joined the ''Times'' as a staff photographer, but his years there were interrupted by military service in Europe as an Army photographer for ''Stars and Stripes''.

Career turning point

On April 8, 1949 in San Marino, California, three-year-old

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, while playing in a field with three other children, fell down an abandoned well, only fourteen inches wide, and became wedged ninety-seven feet below the ground. Arriving on the scene, Wiener came upon hundreds of other newspeople, photographers, and television crews. Believing there was little else at the scene that could be photographed, Wiener left the field and walked to the Fiscus home. There in the rear yard, using his 4x5 Speed Graphic, he photographed the child's empty swing. Returning to the scene, Wiener waited along with everyone else. Despite the efforts of the rescue teams to reach her, Kathy's lifeless body was brought up two days later. Subsequently, Wiener's powerful photograph of the child's empty swing was used on the front page of over 150 newspapers nationwide.

Work

During his decades-long career as a photographer and photojournalist, Wiener consistently produced front-page pictures and photo essays for the world's most prestigious newspapers and news magazines such as ''Life'', ''Paris-Match'', ''Fortune'', ''Time'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. Wiener formed his own company in 1958. He became noted for his innovative combination of cameras and lenses; setups he designed himself to achieve the images he desired. When photographing people, Wiener had the keen ability to capture the context of the moment while focusing squarely on the subject, inherently isolating the essential from the non-essential; the emotional state of the subject at the precise moment of the shutter-click expressed. This was the hallmark of his work. On assignment for ''Life'' during the 1960 presidential primaries he would capture iconic images of

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and

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. He extensively documented Kennedy's bid for the presidency when the senator retained him to record his campaign. Wiener traveled with Kennedy on the campaign trail through the Pacific Northwest. He later expanded into the world of TV documentaries. The Eddy Award-winning “A Slice of Sunday” was his 1967 production on professional football shot with camera-optical systems of his own design. It would serve as the prototype for many of the sports programs on network television in the years to follow such as The NFL Today. In 1979, the

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recognized it as one of the three most innovative documentaries in the prior 25 years of broadcasting.Wiener, L., "Tijuana Sunday," foreword by Mark Donnelly. 7410 Publishing Inc., 1989 In 1975, Wiener created and produced the Emmy award-winning NBC-TV series “Talk About Pictures.” He co-hosted the program with

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. The series featured an eclectic cross-section of photographers and photo enthusiasts exploring photographs and photography. Guests included professionals such as

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, and

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and buffs such as

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and

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. In considering the

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, he said: In 1987 he was selected by the Vatican to photograph

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's visit to Los Angeles during his trip to the United States. He produced nine books including ''Here Comes Me'', ''Marilyn: A Hollywood Farewell; The Death and Funeral of Marilyn Monroe'', ''How Do You Photograph People?'', and ''Tijuana Sunday''. Wiener's work has been spotlighted in photographic art circles, viewed in solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries across the U.S. Four of his photographs – of

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, President John F. Kennedy, and

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— were acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. He taught classes in photography at UCLA, and held lectures and seminars in the U.S. and abroad.

Death

Leigh Wiener died on May 11, 1993, in Los Angeles after suffering a long illness. His obituary published in ''

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'' following his death, described him as photographer of the famous and historic.Saxon, W., "Leigh Wiener, 62, Photographer Of the Famous and the Historic", ''The New York Times'', May 14, 1993
/ref> He died from complications of

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, a skin disease. His doctors attributed the disease possibly to radiation exposure he received while photographing atomic isotopes and atomic bomb tests in the Nevada-Utah desert and in the Pacific after World War II for ''Life'' magazine.

Bibliography

* 1966: Here Comes Me, Odyssey Press * 1969: Not Subject To Change, IBM Corporation * 1982: How Do You Photograph People, The Viking Press * 1986: Limited Edition Portfolio on Poet William Everson, Murray J. Smith/The Dawson's Book Shop * 1987: Leigh Wiener: Portraits, 7410 Publishing, Inc. * 1989: Tijuana Sunday, 7410 Publishing, Inc. * 1990: Marilyn: A Hollywood Farewell, 7410 Publishing, Inc. * 2006: Johnny Cash: Photographs by Leigh Wiener, Five Ties Publishing * 2012: Alcatraz: The Last Day, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy

Books containing his works

* 1964: Industrial Design: Volume 5, by Henry Dreyfuss * 1965: The Drug Takers, Time-Life Books * 1968: The Selected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, by Ann Ridgeway and Leigh Wiener, The Johns Hopkins Press * 1969: UCLA on The Move, by Andrew Hamilton and John B. Jackson, The Ward Ritchie Press * 1973: The Best of LIFE, Time Inc. * 1975: LIFE Goes To The Movies, Time Inc. * 1975: Rainbow, by Christopher Finch, Grossett and Dunlap * 1976: Violence and Aggression, by Ronald H. Bailey, Time-Life Books * 1977: The Double Ax, by Robinson Jeffers, Liveright * 1977: Dear Judas and Other Poems by Robinson Jeffers, by Robinson Jeffers, Liveright * 1977: The Women at Point Sur and Other Poems, by Robinson Jeffers, Liveright * 1982: Judy and Liza, by James Spada, Doubleday and Co., Inc. * 1983: The Cliffs of Solitude, by Robert Zaller, Cambridge University Press * 1985: Jubal Sackett, by Louis L'Amour, Bantam Books * 1987: Robinson Jeffers, by Unterjochte Erde, R. Piper Gmb.H & Co. * 1987: Robinson Jeffers, Poet, by Robert J. Brophy * 1987: Fine Printing: The Los Angeles Tradition, by Ward Ritchie * 1987: Masters of Starlight: Photographers in Hollywood, by David Fahey and Linda Rich * 1988: Photography For The Art Market, by Kathryn Marx, Amphoto * 1988: William Everson: The Life of Brother Antoninus by Lee Bartlett, A New Directions Book * 2000: One Man's Eye: Photographs from the Alan Siegel Collection, Word Wise Press * 2002: A Life in the Golden Age of Jazz: A Biography of Buddy DeFranco, by Fabrice Zammarchi and Sylvie Mas, Parkside Publications, Inc. * 2007: Frank Sinatra: My Way Of Life, Sinatra Society of Japan, Dank * 2008: This Side of Paradise, Jennifer A. Watts and Claudia Bohn-Spector, Merrell * 2009: Los Angeles: Portrait of a City, by David L. Ulin and Kevin Starr, TASCHEN * 2009: Against The Eternal Yesterday: Essays Commemorating The Legacy Of Lion Feuchtwanger, Figueroa Press * 2011: Dennis Hopper: Photographs 1961-1967, by Dennis Hopper, Victor Bockris, Walter Hopps, Jessica Hundley, Tony Shafrazi, TASCHEN * 2014: Hollywood Digs: An Archaeology of Shadows, by Ken LaZebnik, Kelly's Cove Press

Exhibitions

* 1975: Ray Cummings Gallery * 1975: Gallery On The Plaza, The New England Institute of Art, Brookline, MA, USA * 1977: Moody Gallery, Houston, TX, USA * 1978: Living Room Gallery * 1981:

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, Melbourne, Australia * 1983: Carol Schlosberg Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverley, MA, USA * 1985: Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA * 1986: Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA, USA * 1987: Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA, USA * 1987: Witkin Gallery, New York, NY, USA * 1987: Valerie Miller Gallery * 1987: California State University at Long Beach Gallery, Long Beach, CA, USA * 1987: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, USA * 1987: Arpel Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, USA * 1987: Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA * 1987: Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, CA, USA * 1988: California State University at Long Beach Gallery, Long Beach, CA, USA * 1998
The Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
* 2001: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, CA, USA * 2006

* 2009: The Ordover Gallery at the San Diego Museum of Natural History, San Diego, CA, USA * 2010: Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA * 2013: Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, CA, USA

Group exhibitions - partial listing

* 1987: Museum of The Borough of Brooklyn,

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, Brooklyn, NY, USA * 1988:

Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California, Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Pa ...

, Los Angeles, CA, USA * 1988: University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA, USA * 1988: Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA, USA * 1997: The Witkin Gallery, New York City, NY USA * 2008: The Huntington, San Marino, CA, USA * 2009:

Musée de l'Élysée Musée de l'Élysée is a museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, entirely devoted to photography. It is a government-supported institution founded in 1985 by Charles-Henri Favrod. It was housed in an 18th-century mansion until October 2020.

, Lausanne, Switzerland * 2009: Cité de la Musique, Paris, France * 2010: Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France * 2010:

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, Montreal, Canada * 2011: Serviço Social do Comércio de São Paulo, Brazil * 2012: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA USA * 2014:

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, Los Angeles, CA USA * 2015: Forest Lawn Museum, Los Angeles, CA USA

Notable subjects

Entertainment

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* Adlai Stevenson *

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Art/literature

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Sports

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* O. J. Simpson * Y. A. Tittle

Industry

* Albert V. Casey, publisher of the ''Los Angeles Times'' * Stuart Davis, CEO, Great Western Savings *

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, industrial designer *

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, industrialist * Louis Lundborg, Chairman, Bank of America * Dr.

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, chemist; peace activist *

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References

External links

Leigh Wiener Official Website

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