{"id":12636,"date":"2023-02-18T21:06:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T21:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12636"},"modified":"2023-03-21T21:09:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T21:09:40","slug":"julian-wasser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/02\/18\/julian-wasser\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Wasser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/theankler.com\/p\/the-lost-photos-when-hollywood-was\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Ankler<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Lost Photos: When Hollywood Was Hollywood<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The late Julian Wasser had unprecedented access to stars at their most unguarded<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/profile\/129514347-jennifer-laski\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">by Jennifer Laski<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4140f526-5249-4c71-92b4-30689cca61ed_5371x3552.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Writer and art groupie \u201cIt Girl\u201d Eve Babitz played chess with Dada-ist Marcel Duchamp. Art circles legend has it Babitz was trying to make her married boyfriend Walter Hopps, curator of the Pasadena Art Museum, jealous. (Julian Wasser\/Courtesy of Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, Calif.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Private and candid moments<\/strong>\u00a0with Hollywood royalty caught on camera are rare today in this age of everything-is-perfect Instagram, TikTok, and publicist restrictions. But in an earlier era, Los Angeles photographer\u00a0<strong>Julian Wasser<\/strong>\u00a0straddled the worlds of journalism and the bohemian-celebrity era of the 1960s and 70s with ease. He died at the age of 89 on Feb. 8 in L.A., having led a life behind the camera of unprecedented access. His secret? \u201cMy dad always had a camera on him. We had this\u00a0<strong>Ryan O\u2019Nea<\/strong>l-<strong>Tatum O\u2019Neal<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Paper Moon<\/em>-esque relationship where we were sidekicks and I would be his assistant and carry his bags,\u201d says his daughter, actress and producer\u00a0<strong>Alexi Celine Wasser.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cHe was granted access because he was on assignment but the reason he got the shot is, he was always paying attention, and he\u00a0<em>knew<\/em>\u00a0when to get the shot.\u201d He was also fearless. \u201cHe was an old-timey-back-east-kind-of-guy, born in Philadelphia but grew up in the Bronx, and he would just use phrases, like when he was trying to tell me something that would toughen me up, \u2018That\u2019ll put hair on your chest, man.\u2019 He was a great dad.\u201d (Wasser is also survived by a son, James.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/theankler.com\/p\/the-lost-photos-when-hollywood-was\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Ankler<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Ankler The Lost Photos: When Hollywood Was Hollywood The late Julian Wasser had unprecedented access to stars at their most unguarded by Jennifer Laski Private and candid moments\u00a0with Hollywood royalty caught on camera are rare today in this age of everything-is-perfect Instagram, TikTok, and publicist restrictions. But in an earlier era, Los Angeles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}