Brigitte Lacombe

Brigitte Lacombe ( born December 23, 1950) is a French photographer. She was known primarily for her portraits of famous film and theater actor.

Life

Lacombe worked after leaving school, first in Paris photo lab of Elle magazine. For the magazine she attended, among others, the International Film Festival of Cannes 1975, where she met the actor Donald Sutherland and Dustin Hoffman. Subsequently, they visited the set of Fellini's films Casanova and The Untouchables. In 1977 she worked at the filming of Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the third kind

In 1983, she photographed the theater 's production of Glengarry Glen Ross David Mamet in Chicago The Goodman Theatre. Lacombe worked later repeated with Mamet. From 1985 to 1992 she worked at New York's Lincoln Center Theater as a Staff Photographer.

As a film photographer she worked on sets of films of directors Martin Scorsese, Mike Nichols, Sam Mendes, Michael Haneke, David Mamet, Quentin Tarantino, James Gray and Spike Jonze. Your photographs were published, among others, in publications such as Vanity Fair, Acne Paper, The New Yorker, The Financial Times Magazine, WSJ Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Nowness and the New York Magazine.

Since 2009 Lacombe working on a project for the Doha Film Institute and the Doha Tribeca Film Festival in Qatar, where they built a collection of over 250 portraits of many filmmakers and actors, mainly from the Middle East. Together with her sister Marian Lacombe they then worked on the project Hey'Ya Arab Women in Sport, the film shows and photo shoots Arab athletes. The results of this collaboration were shown during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London at Sotheby's.

In 2000 she was awarded with The Eisenstaedt Award for Travel Photography. In 2010 she received the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award for Photography.

Brigitte Lacombe lives and works in New York City.

Works

• Lacombe cinema | theater. 2001, Munich, Schirmer / Mosel, ISBN 3-88814-939-8
• Lacombe anima | persona in 2008, Göttingen, Steidl / Dangin, ISBN 978-3-86521-644-1