BIOGRAPHY: John Swope (photographer)
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John Swope
Born: August 23, 1908 New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.
Died: May 11, 1979 (aged 70) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Known for Photography
Spouse: Dorothy McGuire
John Swope (August 23, 1908 – May 11, 1979) was a photographer for Life Magazine and a pilot.
Biography: He was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
He attended Harvard University in 1930. There, he joined the theatrical group University Players where Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, and Joshua Logan were also members.
His interest in photography began when he brought a camera to a yacht race from Los Angeles to Hawaii in 1936.
Together with Leland Hayward and John H. Connelly, he co-founded Southwest Airways (no connection to the present day Southwest Airlines), a company that developed the Thunderbird Fields, which trained thousands of military pilots during the Second World War.
He was married to actress Dorothy McGuire in 1943 until his death in May 11, 1979.
Career: He started his career by documenting federal housing projects, a part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal Program.
1936 - He worked as an assistant to Leland Heyward.
1938 - He was commissioned to photograph the work of nurses in Harlem and the Lower East Side by Henry Street Settlement House.
1939 - He was assigned by Harper's Bazaar in South America with Josh Logan.
1941 - He began training Aviation cadets in Thunderbird Airfield right after he joined the Army.
1942 - He collaborated with John Steinbeck on an illustrated book, Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team, which documented the training of army cadets.
1945 - He joined the Naval Reserve as a photographer. His first assignment, in June 1945, was to photograph an overseas military flight from Maryland to Paris.
1946 - Began his freelancing career again after his discharge from the Navy. He produced a theatrical play at the La Jolla Playhouse.
1975 - Photographed palaces of the maharajahs in India for the James Ivory book, Autobiography of a Princess.
Influences: John Swope broke the mold of Hollywood's glamour shots when he burst in the scene in 1936. What makes his work unique is how he used available light, shot from unusual angles, and informal portraits. This might come from his influence of Mondrian's use of linear space.
Exhibitions: A Letter from Japan: The Photographs of John Swope - taken in August 1945 documents the devastation caused by World War II. This photographic essay was complemented by a 144-page letter to his wife Dorothy McGuire describing in detail his emotional experience when shooting these images.
Swope's photography has been the subject of five solo exhibitions at Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica, California; "Trees" in 2006, "New York" in 2005, "Photographs" in 2003, "Camera over Hollywood" in 2001, and "A View from Above" in 1996.
Books: Camera over Hollywood: Photographs by John Swope, 1936-1938 (published in 1939).
OBITUARY: "John Swope, Note Photographer"
(obit), by Thomas W Ennis, New York Times, 15 May 1979
" John Swope, a photographer who had a long association with Hollywood and the theater and who was also a theatrical producer, died Friday at St John's Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 70 years old and lived in Beverly Hills.
Before Mr Swope went to Hollywood in 1936 to work as a free-lance still photographer, he had been a Washington bureaucrat, serving the Administration of President Franklin D Roosevelt for several years as director of national code compliance of the Depression-born National Recovery Administration."
"He had a keen interest in the theater as well as his photography. After he was graduated from Harvard University in 1930, he joined the University Players, a theater group in West Falmouth on Cape Cod that included Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Joshua Logan and the late Margaret Sullavan. And they all met again in Hollywood, where Mr Swope lived for a while with the three actors.
In 1938, when he was 29, Mr Swope had the first of many gallery exhibitions of his photographs when the Carstairs Gallery on 57th Street displayed 54 of his pictures, mostly of beach and sea scenes taken on the West Coast.
In 1943, Mr Swope's association with the theater was reinforced with his marriage to Dorothy McGuire, the actress.
During World War II, Mr Swope was an Air Force flying instructor.
After the war, he was a free-lance photographer for Time and Life magazines, he and his actress wife and their friends, Mel Ferrer and Gregory Peck, established the La Jolla Summer Playhouse in La Jolla, Calif. Mr Swope produced more than 40 plays there, while continuing his magazine assignments.
A collection of Mr Swope's Hollywood photographs, "Camera Over Hollywood," with 96 pictures of Hollywood and Hollywood people, was published in 1938 by Random House.
His photographs have been exhibited at galleries and museums across the country, generally under the heading of "People and Places." Mr Swope was also commissioned to photograph the sculpture and the art collection of Jacques Lipchitz for the University of California at Los Angeles and Henry Moore's sculptures for the Los Angeles County Art Museum.
Mr Swope was born in New Brunswick, N.J. His father, Gerard Swope, was president of the General Electric Company, and he was a nephew of Herbert Bayard Swope, a colorful and well-known New Yorker who was one of the country's great reporters and editors when he was on the old New York World.
In addition to his wife, Mr Swope is survived by a daughter, Topo; a son, Mark; a sister, Henrietta Swope of Pasadena, Calif., and two brothers, Gerard Swope Jr of Croton-on-Hudson, NY, and David Swope of Ossinging, NY. There was no funeral service. There will be a memorial service today at the Swope home in Beverly Hills."
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Swope
Born: August 23, 1908 New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.
Died: May 11, 1979 (aged 70) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Known for Photography
Spouse: Dorothy McGuire
John Swope (August 23, 1908 – May 11, 1979) was a photographer for Life Magazine and a pilot.
Biography: He was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
He attended Harvard University in 1930. There, he joined the theatrical group University Players where Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, and Joshua Logan were also members.
His interest in photography began when he brought a camera to a yacht race from Los Angeles to Hawaii in 1936.
Together with Leland Hayward and John H. Connelly, he co-founded Southwest Airways (no connection to the present day Southwest Airlines), a company that developed the Thunderbird Fields, which trained thousands of military pilots during the Second World War.
He was married to actress Dorothy McGuire in 1943 until his death in May 11, 1979.
Career: He started his career by documenting federal housing projects, a part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal Program.
1936 - He worked as an assistant to Leland Heyward.
1938 - He was commissioned to photograph the work of nurses in Harlem and the Lower East Side by Henry Street Settlement House.
1939 - He was assigned by Harper's Bazaar in South America with Josh Logan.
1941 - He began training Aviation cadets in Thunderbird Airfield right after he joined the Army.
1942 - He collaborated with John Steinbeck on an illustrated book, Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team, which documented the training of army cadets.
1945 - He joined the Naval Reserve as a photographer. His first assignment, in June 1945, was to photograph an overseas military flight from Maryland to Paris.
1946 - Began his freelancing career again after his discharge from the Navy. He produced a theatrical play at the La Jolla Playhouse.
1975 - Photographed palaces of the maharajahs in India for the James Ivory book, Autobiography of a Princess.
Influences: John Swope broke the mold of Hollywood's glamour shots when he burst in the scene in 1936. What makes his work unique is how he used available light, shot from unusual angles, and informal portraits. This might come from his influence of Mondrian's use of linear space.
Exhibitions: A Letter from Japan: The Photographs of John Swope - taken in August 1945 documents the devastation caused by World War II. This photographic essay was complemented by a 144-page letter to his wife Dorothy McGuire describing in detail his emotional experience when shooting these images.
Swope's photography has been the subject of five solo exhibitions at Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica, California; "Trees" in 2006, "New York" in 2005, "Photographs" in 2003, "Camera over Hollywood" in 2001, and "A View from Above" in 1996.
Books: Camera over Hollywood: Photographs by John Swope, 1936-1938 (published in 1939).
OBITUARY: "John Swope, Note Photographer"
(obit), by Thomas W Ennis, New York Times, 15 May 1979
" John Swope, a photographer who had a long association with Hollywood and the theater and who was also a theatrical producer, died Friday at St John's Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 70 years old and lived in Beverly Hills.
Before Mr Swope went to Hollywood in 1936 to work as a free-lance still photographer, he had been a Washington bureaucrat, serving the Administration of President Franklin D Roosevelt for several years as director of national code compliance of the Depression-born National Recovery Administration."
"He had a keen interest in the theater as well as his photography. After he was graduated from Harvard University in 1930, he joined the University Players, a theater group in West Falmouth on Cape Cod that included Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Joshua Logan and the late Margaret Sullavan. And they all met again in Hollywood, where Mr Swope lived for a while with the three actors.
In 1938, when he was 29, Mr Swope had the first of many gallery exhibitions of his photographs when the Carstairs Gallery on 57th Street displayed 54 of his pictures, mostly of beach and sea scenes taken on the West Coast.
In 1943, Mr Swope's association with the theater was reinforced with his marriage to Dorothy McGuire, the actress.
During World War II, Mr Swope was an Air Force flying instructor.
After the war, he was a free-lance photographer for Time and Life magazines, he and his actress wife and their friends, Mel Ferrer and Gregory Peck, established the La Jolla Summer Playhouse in La Jolla, Calif. Mr Swope produced more than 40 plays there, while continuing his magazine assignments.
A collection of Mr Swope's Hollywood photographs, "Camera Over Hollywood," with 96 pictures of Hollywood and Hollywood people, was published in 1938 by Random House.
His photographs have been exhibited at galleries and museums across the country, generally under the heading of "People and Places." Mr Swope was also commissioned to photograph the sculpture and the art collection of Jacques Lipchitz for the University of California at Los Angeles and Henry Moore's sculptures for the Los Angeles County Art Museum.
Mr Swope was born in New Brunswick, N.J. His father, Gerard Swope, was president of the General Electric Company, and he was a nephew of Herbert Bayard Swope, a colorful and well-known New Yorker who was one of the country's great reporters and editors when he was on the old New York World.
In addition to his wife, Mr Swope is survived by a daughter, Topo; a son, Mark; a sister, Henrietta Swope of Pasadena, Calif., and two brothers, Gerard Swope Jr of Croton-on-Hudson, NY, and David Swope of Ossinging, NY. There was no funeral service. There will be a memorial service today at the Swope home in Beverly Hills."
BIOGRAPHY: John Swope (photographer)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Swope
Born: August 23, 1908 New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.
Died: May 11, 1979 (aged 70) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Known for Photography
Spouse: Dorothy McGuire
John Swope (August 23, 1908 – May 11, 1979) was a photographer for Life Magazine and a pilot.
Biography: He was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
He attended Harvard University in 1930. There, he joined the theatrical group University Players where Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, and Joshua Logan were also members.
His interest in photography began when he brought a camera to a yacht race from Los Angeles to Hawaii in 1936.
Together with Leland Hayward and John H. Connelly, he co-founded Southwest Airways (no connection to the present day Southwest Airlines), a company that developed the Thunderbird Fields, which trained thousands of military pilots during the Second World War.
He was married to actress Dorothy McGuire in 1943 until his death in May 11, 1979.
Career: He started his career by documenting federal housing projects, a part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal Program.
1936 - He worked as an assistant to Leland Heyward.
1938 - He was commissioned to photograph the work of nurses in Harlem and the Lower East Side by Henry Street Settlement House.
1939 - He was assigned by Harper's Bazaar in South America with Josh Logan.
1941 - He began training Aviation cadets in Thunderbird Airfield right after he joined the Army.
1942 - He collaborated with John Steinbeck on an illustrated book, Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team, which documented the training of army cadets.
1945 - He joined the Naval Reserve as a photographer. His first assignment, in June 1945, was to photograph an overseas military flight from Maryland to Paris.
1946 - Began his freelancing career again after his discharge from the Navy. He produced a theatrical play at the La Jolla Playhouse.
1975 - Photographed palaces of the maharajahs in India for the James Ivory book, Autobiography of a Princess.
Influences: John Swope broke the mold of Hollywood's glamour shots when he burst in the scene in 1936. What makes his work unique is how he used available light, shot from unusual angles, and informal portraits. This might come from his influence of Mondrian's use of linear space.
Exhibitions: A Letter from Japan: The Photographs of John Swope - taken in August 1945 documents the devastation caused by World War II. This photographic essay was complemented by a 144-page letter to his wife Dorothy McGuire describing in detail his emotional experience when shooting these images.
Swope's photography has been the subject of five solo exhibitions at Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica, California; "Trees" in 2006, "New York" in 2005, "Photographs" in 2003, "Camera over Hollywood" in 2001, and "A View from Above" in 1996.
Books: Camera over Hollywood: Photographs by John Swope, 1936-1938 (published in 1939).
OBITUARY: "John Swope, Note Photographer"
(obit), by Thomas W Ennis, New York Times, 15 May 1979
" John Swope, a photographer who had a long association with Hollywood and the theater and who was also a theatrical producer, died Friday at St John's Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 70 years old and lived in Beverly Hills.
Before Mr Swope went to Hollywood in 1936 to work as a free-lance still photographer, he had been a Washington bureaucrat, serving the Administration of President Franklin D Roosevelt for several years as director of national code compliance of the Depression-born National Recovery Administration."
"He had a keen interest in the theater as well as his photography. After he was graduated from Harvard University in 1930, he joined the University Players, a theater group in West Falmouth on Cape Cod that included Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Joshua Logan and the late Margaret Sullavan. And they all met again in Hollywood, where Mr Swope lived for a while with the three actors.
In 1938, when he was 29, Mr Swope had the first of many gallery exhibitions of his photographs when the Carstairs Gallery on 57th Street displayed 54 of his pictures, mostly of beach and sea scenes taken on the West Coast.
In 1943, Mr Swope's association with the theater was reinforced with his marriage to Dorothy McGuire, the actress.
During World War II, Mr Swope was an Air Force flying instructor.
After the war, he was a free-lance photographer for Time and Life magazines, he and his actress wife and their friends, Mel Ferrer and Gregory Peck, established the La Jolla Summer Playhouse in La Jolla, Calif. Mr Swope produced more than 40 plays there, while continuing his magazine assignments.
A collection of Mr Swope's Hollywood photographs, "Camera Over Hollywood," with 96 pictures of Hollywood and Hollywood people, was published in 1938 by Random House.
His photographs have been exhibited at galleries and museums across the country, generally under the heading of "People and Places." Mr Swope was also commissioned to photograph the sculpture and the art collection of Jacques Lipchitz for the University of California at Los Angeles and Henry Moore's sculptures for the Los Angeles County Art Museum.
Mr Swope was born in New Brunswick, N.J. His father, Gerard Swope, was president of the General Electric Company, and he was a nephew of Herbert Bayard Swope, a colorful and well-known New Yorker who was one of the country's great reporters and editors when he was on the old New York World.
In addition to his wife, Mr Swope is survived by a daughter, Topo; a son, Mark; a sister, Henrietta Swope of Pasadena, Calif., and two brothers, Gerard Swope Jr of Croton-on-Hudson, NY, and David Swope of Ossinging, NY. There was no funeral service. There will be a memorial service today at the Swope home in Beverly Hills."
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Swope
Born: August 23, 1908 New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.
Died: May 11, 1979 (aged 70) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Known for Photography
Spouse: Dorothy McGuire
John Swope (August 23, 1908 – May 11, 1979) was a photographer for Life Magazine and a pilot.
Biography: He was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
He attended Harvard University in 1930. There, he joined the theatrical group University Players where Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, and Joshua Logan were also members.
His interest in photography began when he brought a camera to a yacht race from Los Angeles to Hawaii in 1936.
Together with Leland Hayward and John H. Connelly, he co-founded Southwest Airways (no connection to the present day Southwest Airlines), a company that developed the Thunderbird Fields, which trained thousands of military pilots during the Second World War.
He was married to actress Dorothy McGuire in 1943 until his death in May 11, 1979.
Career: He started his career by documenting federal housing projects, a part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal Program.
1936 - He worked as an assistant to Leland Heyward.
1938 - He was commissioned to photograph the work of nurses in Harlem and the Lower East Side by Henry Street Settlement House.
1939 - He was assigned by Harper's Bazaar in South America with Josh Logan.
1941 - He began training Aviation cadets in Thunderbird Airfield right after he joined the Army.
1942 - He collaborated with John Steinbeck on an illustrated book, Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team, which documented the training of army cadets.
1945 - He joined the Naval Reserve as a photographer. His first assignment, in June 1945, was to photograph an overseas military flight from Maryland to Paris.
1946 - Began his freelancing career again after his discharge from the Navy. He produced a theatrical play at the La Jolla Playhouse.
1975 - Photographed palaces of the maharajahs in India for the James Ivory book, Autobiography of a Princess.
Influences: John Swope broke the mold of Hollywood's glamour shots when he burst in the scene in 1936. What makes his work unique is how he used available light, shot from unusual angles, and informal portraits. This might come from his influence of Mondrian's use of linear space.
Exhibitions: A Letter from Japan: The Photographs of John Swope - taken in August 1945 documents the devastation caused by World War II. This photographic essay was complemented by a 144-page letter to his wife Dorothy McGuire describing in detail his emotional experience when shooting these images.
Swope's photography has been the subject of five solo exhibitions at Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica, California; "Trees" in 2006, "New York" in 2005, "Photographs" in 2003, "Camera over Hollywood" in 2001, and "A View from Above" in 1996.
Books: Camera over Hollywood: Photographs by John Swope, 1936-1938 (published in 1939).
OBITUARY: "John Swope, Note Photographer"
(obit), by Thomas W Ennis, New York Times, 15 May 1979
" John Swope, a photographer who had a long association with Hollywood and the theater and who was also a theatrical producer, died Friday at St John's Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 70 years old and lived in Beverly Hills.
Before Mr Swope went to Hollywood in 1936 to work as a free-lance still photographer, he had been a Washington bureaucrat, serving the Administration of President Franklin D Roosevelt for several years as director of national code compliance of the Depression-born National Recovery Administration."
"He had a keen interest in the theater as well as his photography. After he was graduated from Harvard University in 1930, he joined the University Players, a theater group in West Falmouth on Cape Cod that included Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Joshua Logan and the late Margaret Sullavan. And they all met again in Hollywood, where Mr Swope lived for a while with the three actors.
In 1938, when he was 29, Mr Swope had the first of many gallery exhibitions of his photographs when the Carstairs Gallery on 57th Street displayed 54 of his pictures, mostly of beach and sea scenes taken on the West Coast.
In 1943, Mr Swope's association with the theater was reinforced with his marriage to Dorothy McGuire, the actress.
During World War II, Mr Swope was an Air Force flying instructor.
After the war, he was a free-lance photographer for Time and Life magazines, he and his actress wife and their friends, Mel Ferrer and Gregory Peck, established the La Jolla Summer Playhouse in La Jolla, Calif. Mr Swope produced more than 40 plays there, while continuing his magazine assignments.
A collection of Mr Swope's Hollywood photographs, "Camera Over Hollywood," with 96 pictures of Hollywood and Hollywood people, was published in 1938 by Random House.
His photographs have been exhibited at galleries and museums across the country, generally under the heading of "People and Places." Mr Swope was also commissioned to photograph the sculpture and the art collection of Jacques Lipchitz for the University of California at Los Angeles and Henry Moore's sculptures for the Los Angeles County Art Museum.
Mr Swope was born in New Brunswick, N.J. His father, Gerard Swope, was president of the General Electric Company, and he was a nephew of Herbert Bayard Swope, a colorful and well-known New Yorker who was one of the country's great reporters and editors when he was on the old New York World.
In addition to his wife, Mr Swope is survived by a daughter, Topo; a son, Mark; a sister, Henrietta Swope of Pasadena, Calif., and two brothers, Gerard Swope Jr of Croton-on-Hudson, NY, and David Swope of Ossinging, NY. There was no funeral service. There will be a memorial service today at the Swope home in Beverly Hills."
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