How a Photographer Landed a Beatles Photo on His First Assignment | PetaPixel
Photographer Dennis Brack certainly had beginner’s luck as he captured The Beatles in front of The Capitol on his very first assignment for the renowned photography agency Black Star.
In the fall of 1963, the young aspiring photographer went to the photo agency Black Star and showed his portfolio to Ernest Mayer, one of the founders of the picture agency.
“He looked at my work, grunted a little, and asked me if I had a day job,” recalls Brack. “When I answered that I was a second-year law student, he replied, ‘stay in law school.’”
Kurt Safranski, Ernest Mayer, and Kurt Kornfeld, three German Jews, fled Berlin during the Nazi regime and formed the photo agency Black Star in the United States in 1935. Time and Fortune publisher Henry Luce, the largest publisher in the day, collaborated with the photo agency to form Life magazine, the first all-photographic American news magazine, which dominated the genre for several decades.
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