1. Bruno Bernard Sommerfeld, known as Bernard of Hollywood, was an American photographer best known for pin-up and glamour photography of Marilyn Monroe and others.
16 Facts About Bruno Bernard
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Bruno Bernard Sommerfeld was born into poverty on February 2,1912, in Berlin, Germany.
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Bruno Bernard was put in an orphanage by parents who could not afford to support him.
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Bruno Bernard attended Kiel University, where, in 1934, he earned a doctorate in criminal psychology.
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Bruno Bernard became the general secretary of a Jewish youth organization, which led to his name appearing on a Gestapo hit list.
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Bruno Bernard attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he planned to continue his education but soon became interested in the arts.
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Unable to get a job as a director, Bernard returned to his interest in photography.
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Bruno Bernard preferred natural light like the sun at the beach and sometimes added a flash to his light concept.
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Bruno Bernard never had any formal training in photography and credited his success to "two good teachers, trial and error".
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Bruno Bernard started out taking photos of the wives and children of the directors and producers he had come to know through his apprenticeship.
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Bruno Bernard is credited with first photographing Marilyn Monroe at the Racquet Club in Palm Springs, California, in 1947, when she was still Norma Jeane.
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Bruno Bernard is said to have told Bernard, "Remember, Bernie, you started it all".
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Bruno Bernard submitted as part of his defense a letter from then-General Dwight D Eisenhower, who was a fan of Bernard's pinup photography.
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Bruno Bernard was a photojournalist for the German magazine Der Spiegel for the Eichmann Trial in Israel.
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In 1984, Bruno Bernard became the first still photographer to be honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a 50-year retrospective of his work.
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Bruno Bernard died of cancer on June 3,1987, at the age 75 in Los Angeles, California.