Ernest Bachrach
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Ernest A. Bachrach (1899 – 1973) was an American photographer.
Bachrach was born in 1899 and died in 1973.[1][2] He attended Stuyvesant High School.[3] He worked at Famous Players–Lasky "right after" World War I.[4][3] Around 1923, he was working in Paramount Pictures's studio in Astoria, Queens, taking stills for Gloria Swanson films.[5] When Swanson departed New York in 1926 after forming her own company, she asked Bachrach to come with her.[1]
As of 1946, Bachrach had been a still photographer at RKO Pictures for 18 years.[6] He founded RKO's still photography department in 1928 following RKO's merger with Film Booking Offices of America and headed the still photography department at RKO as of 1935.[7] He took almost all the stills of Katharine Hepburn in the 1930s, while she was with RKO.[8][9]
Bachrach used Graflex cameras "to capture spontaneity".[1]
Scholar Patricia J. Fanning calls Bachrach "one of the premier portrait photographers in Hollywood".[10]
- Bachrach, Ernest A. (September 1932). "Personality and Pictorialism in Portraiture". American Cinematographer. 13 (5): 6–7, 28.
- Bachrach, Ernest A. (March 1940). "Review of U.S. Camera, 1940". International Photographer. 12 (2): 25.
