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Peter Fisher (born Péter Fischer; July 1929 – 18 March 2013) was a Hungarian-born
He was "born in Budapest into a traditional, rather than observant, Jewish family."
His father was engineer Pál Fischer (1892–1945), his mother was Lola Bader (1905–1973).
His first wife was the Hungarian actress Flóra Kádár (1928–2003) but they were divorced. Secondly he married Blandine Costi and thirdly Carol Joernet.
His younger brother is the pianist and conductor György Fischer. György Fischer's first wife was opera singer Lucia Popp. After being divorced from Popp he married American violinist Ida Bieler.
His cousins are
cinematographer
The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the ch ...
, photojournalist
Photojournalism is journalism that uses images to tell a news story. It usually only refers to still images, but can also refer to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (such ...
. He died on 18 March 2013 at the age of 83. "One of the best-known photographers of the Jewish community." He was the most famous for photographs of the actress Jayne Mansfield, "whose visit to Peter's studio stopped traffic in the local streets as fans craned to see her."
Life
He was "born in Budapest into a traditional, rather than observant, Jewish family."
His father was engineer Pál Fischer (1892–1945), his mother was Lola Bader (1905–1973).
His first wife was the Hungarian actress Flóra Kádár (1928–2003) but they were divorced. Secondly he married Blandine Costi and thirdly Carol Joernet.
His younger brother is the pianist and conductor György Fischer. György Fischer's first wife was opera singer Lucia Popp. After being divorced from Popp he married American violinist Ida Bieler.
His cousins are conductor
Conductor or conduction may refer to:
Music
* Conductor (music), a person who leads a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra.
* ''Conductor'' (album), an album by indie rock band The Comas
* Conduction, a type of structured free improvisation ...
s Ádám Fischer
Ádám Fischer (born 9 September 1949 in Budapest) is a Hungarian conductor. He is the general music director of the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra, chief conductor of the Danish Chamber Orchestra, and chief conductor of the Düsseldorfer Sym ...
and Iván Fischer.
He studied cinematography at the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest in the 1950s when he got acquainted with his first wife, Flóra Kádár who took degree in 1953 as actress. Because of the fall of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, he left Hungary for Great Britain but "he was unable to resume his profession without a union card, so moved instead into stills photography."See Anonymous (2013).
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fisher, Peter 1929 births 2013 deaths Hungarian cinematographers Hungarian photojournalists British photojournalists Photographers from London Photographers from Budapest Film people from Budapest