Norman Seeff was born on 5 March 1939 and is a South African photographer and filmmaker.
12 Facts About Norman Seeff
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Cato became an important mentor to Norman Seeff and gave him his first major photographic assignment producing images for the Band's Stage Fright album.
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In 1971, Norman Seeff spent a year as Professor of Photography at Bennington College in Vermont.
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For Norman Seeff it was a personal paradigm shift in his understanding of the creative process.
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Norman Seeff has documented over 500 sessions with artists of many disciplines including musicians, actors, writers, directors, actors, scientists, entrepreneurs, and politicians.
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Norman Seeff has interacted with creators and innovators including Ray Charles, the Carpenters, Joni Mitchell, Guthrie Thomas, Kiss, Steve Jobs, Steve Martin, John Huston, Martin Scorsese, Billy Wilder, Bob Fosse, will.
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In 1990, Norman Seeff applied the spontaneous and co-creative approach he had developed during his photo sessions to working with actors in television commercials.
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Norman Seeff returned to photography and the documentation of his sessions in 1999 in order to produce a documentary exploration of the artist's journey for the opening of Paul Allen's Experience Music Project and sessions with the stars of Paramount Television and Caltech's many Nobel Science Laureates.
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Norman Seeff is preparing this multi-media and multi-disciplinary content for global release via multiple interactive digital platforms.
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Norman Seeff's daughter, Tai Power Seeff, whom he shared with actress Taryn Power, is a photographer.
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Norman Seeff loved what Mapplethorpe had done and offered to photograph Mapplethorpe and Smith.
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From 1969 onward Norman Seeff contributed photography and art directed and designed hundreds of record covers.