George Holz was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and assisted for Helmut Newton, whom he credits with guiding his career.
17 Facts About George Holz
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George Holz continues to travel extensively for his commercial work, fine-art shows, and lectures, and is currently working on several projects, including his upcoming book of nudes.
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George Holz was educated at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
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Newton encouraged George Holz to go to Europe and George Holz spent several years at the beginning of his career in Milan, where his fashion editorials appeared in European publications such as Vogue Italia, Madame Figaro, and French Elle.
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George Holz then returned to Los Angeles and focused on shooting album covers, including Madonna's Borderline.
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George Holz continued to shoot fashion editorial for Harper's Bazaar, Interview Magazine and The New York Times, and began celebrity portraiture as well, publishing his images in InStyle, People, Glamour, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, GQ, and Vanity Fair.
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Notably, George Holz was one of the first major photographers to shoot Angelina Jolie at the beginning of her career.
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George Holz has moved between editorial and advertising work for the past two decades.
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George Holz created numerous advertising campaigns, including ones for Elizabeth Arden, Bloomingdales, DeBeers and Max Factor, and won a Clio Award for his campaign for the International Gold Corporation.
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George Holz continued to lens the artwork for a number of albums, including those of Shania Twain, Lindsay Lohan, Mariah Carey, Van Halen, Joan Jett, Boyz II Men, and Chaka Kahn.
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In 2003, George Holz appeared on America's Next Top Model, shooting the models underwater in a tank and serving as a judge.
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George Holz calls his style "painting with light" and his work betrays a sensuous, nuanced vision.
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George Holz has shot both celebrities and nudes, two groups likely to become inhibited in front of the camera.
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George Holz is most known for his black and white nudes, which he has been shooting since 1974 and which have been exhibited widely.
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George Holz began a unique project photographing nudes posed with animal bones, tortoiseshells, and antlers, contrasting living flesh with ancient relics.
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George Holz photographed nudes with found objects, juxtaposing the natural and the manmade.
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George Holz has been the subject of international solo shows in Budapest, Hungary, and the University of Applied Arts, Vienna and part of a group show Laforet Museum in Tokyo.