LEGENDARY PHOTOGRAPHER ALBERT WATSON

Scottish-born photographer Albert Watson has left an indelible mark on pop culture since he moved to USA in the early 1970s. Though blind in his right eye since birth, Watson sees the world through a remarkably sensitive lens that has made for decades of dramatic images.

Born in 1942, Albert Watson is renowned for his art, celebrity and fashion photography. His work has been displayed in museums and galleries around the world. With more than 200 Vogue and 40 Rolling Stone covers to his credit, the 72-year-old artist also relishes shooting landscapes and still lifes, and has directed myriad ad campaigns and commercials.

In 1973, for the Christmas copy of Harper’s Bazaar, Watson took Alfred Hitchcock‘s portrait. It was his first celebrity assignment, prompting him to feel that, if he could do that, he could do anything. This photo became his best and most popular photograph on a list of iconic photographs which includes rock stars, supermodels, rappers, film stars, and even Queen Elizabeth II and President Bill Clinton.

Alfred Hitchcock, 1973

BB King 

Steven Tyler, 1992

The Kennedy house in East Hampton, N.Y.

Albert Watson has demonstrated his artworks at many exhibitions including at Milan’sMuseum of Modern Art, Austria’s Kunst Haus Wien, Belgium’s Photo Museum, Germany’s NRW Forum, Edinburgh’s City Art Centre. His photos have also been shown at several group exhibitions at London’s National Portrait Gallery, Moscow’s Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, New York’s Metropolitan Museum ofArt, Hamburg’s Deichtorhallen, New York’s International Center of Photography.

Naomi Campbell

Kate Moss with Eye Mask, Marrakech, 1993

Johnny Depp by Albert Watson, 1993

Memoirs of a Geisha, 2005

Quentin Tarantino & Uma Thurman

Waris Dirie Ouarzazate, Morocco, 1993

Romantic, mystical and emotional, the graphically arresting works of Albert Watson inspire. He is the master of transforming celebrity, editorial, and fashion subjects into objects of fine art and beauty.

Steve Jobs, 2006

Michael Jackson