Career
He later joined the staff of Life magazine. A Who"s Who of notable persons have posed for Kirkland from the great photography innovator Manitoba Ray and photographer/painter Jacques Henri Lartigue to Doctor Stephen Hawking. Entertainment celebrities he has photographed include Mick Jagger, Sting, Björk, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Morgan Freeman, Orson Welles, Andy Warhol, Oliver Stone, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leonardo DiCaprio, Coco Chanel, Marlene Dietrich, Brigitte Bardot, Judy Garland, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, Catherine Deneuve, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross.
Kirkland"s portrait of Charlie Chaplin is at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Kirkland is contracted for work around the world and has worked in the motion picture industry as a special photographer on more than 150 films including 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Sound of Music, Sophie"s Choice, Out of Africa, The Pirate Movie, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Romancing the Stone, Titanic, and Moulin Rouge!. Some of his famous film shots include John Travolta in the dance sequence from Saturday Night Fever, a portrait of Judy Garland crying and the March 1976 Playboy pictorial of Margot Kidder.
She obtained degrees in Political Science and English. Kirkland"s next book project titled "A Life in Pictures" is scheduled for release in 2013.
"Titanic" was the first picture book to reach Number.1 on the New York Times Best Seller list and did so on both the hardcover and paperback lists.
Douglas Kirkland has lectured at the Smithsonian Institution, the American Film Institute Conservatory in Hawaii and Los Angeles, the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena as well as the Kodak Centers in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan.
