Bill Eppridge's guest appearances

Bill Eppridge

The Documentary Photographer Podcast

Richard Skipper Celebrates

Pat Flynn

Doug Menuez

Anna Gunn

Jon Wilkening

Gina Glover

Dave Walsh

Stephen Serio

Mandy Barker

David Stevens

Jonathon Keats

Simon Norfolk

Gabrielle Motola

Peter Cox

Dana Popa

Carly Clarke

OwlTail

Richard Skipper

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/IbNnEKk-S24Adrienne Aurichio is the Director of Bill Eppridge’s photographic archive and the editor of Becoming Barbra published in 2018. Adrienne spent twenty years as a picture editor at magazines, and book publishers. She and Bill met in 1986 while they were both working at Sports Illustrated. He had previously been a staff photographer for Life magazine throughout the 1960s and early 1970s until that magazine ceased publishing as a weekly. They later married and spent 28 years together until his death in 2013. Bill said that his former boss at Life magazine told him to “find a good picture editor and marry her.” Their final collaboration, Becoming Barbra, was begun in 1994 and finally published 24 years later. Publishers were mistakenly worried that Streisand would sue them. The book is filled with photographs that Bill made of Streisand in 1963 before she was a star, and then in 1966 as she was about to star in Funny Girl on Broadway. He had full access and cooperation. There were no publicist restrictions. Eppridge’s archive became a full-time business for them after back surgery in 2003 curtailed Bill’s ability to travel as much as he had done before while at Sports Illustrated. Adrienne left her full time job and they began to produce museum exhibits, began a long collaboration with Monroe Gallery to sell fine art prints, and published more books. After Bill’s death, Adrienne continued to catalogue his work and finish the projects that they had begun. During their time together they produced 6 books of Bill’s work. Those include Jake: A Labrador retriever; Upland Passage; Robert Kennedy: The Last Campaign; A Time It Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties; The Beatles: Six Days That Changed the World; Becoming Barbra.

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: <a href="https://youtu.be/IbNnEKk-S24" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/IbNnEKk-S24</a> Adrienne Aurichio is the Director of Bill Eppridge’s photographic archive and the editor of Becoming Barbra published in 2018. Adrienne spent twenty years as a picture editor at magazines, and book publishers. She and Bill met in 1986 while they were both working at Sports Illustrated. He had previously been a staff photographer for Life magazine throughout the 1960s and early 1970s until that magazine ceased publishing as a weekly. They later married and spent 28 years together until his death in 2013. Bill said that his former boss at Life magazine told him to “find a good picture editor and marry her.” Their final collaboration, Becoming Barbra, was begun in 1994 and finally published 24 years later. Publishers were mistakenly worried that Streisand would sue them. The book is filled with photographs that Bill made of Streisand in 1963 before she was a star, and then in 1966 as she was about to star in Funny Girl on Broadway. He had full access and cooperation. There were no publicist restrictions. Eppridge’s archive became a full-time business for them after back surgery in 2003 curtailed Bill’s ability to travel as much as he had done before while at Sports Illustrated. Adrienne left her full time job and they began to produce museum exhibits, began a long collaboration with Monroe Gallery to sell fine art prints, and published more books. After Bill’s death, Adrienne continued to catalogue his work and finish the projects that they had begun. During their time together they produced 6 books of Bill’s work. Those include Jake: A Labrador retriever; Upland Passage; Robert Kennedy: The Last Campaign; A Time It Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties; The Beatles: Six Days That Changed the World; Becoming Barbra.

Richard Skipper Celebrates Bill Eppridge w/Adrienne Aurichio 8/03/22

The recent passing of Bill Eppridge reminded me of the photograph that he took of a dying Robert Kennedy and of my reaction to it – it is a beautiful photograph. I wonder whether the beauty of the photograph detracts from the story. Is it above all a thing of aesthetic delight and a storytelling image a distant second? I don't intend any disrespect by saying this. It's just that I wonder at the relationship between beauty and storytelling. Does beauty detract or obscure the story the photographer intends to tell? Or perhaps it enhances it somehow? In this episode of The Documentary Photographer, we touch on the issue of beauty in documentary images. We also look forward to the upcoming print sale to raise funds for medical relief in Syria.

The recent passing of Bill Eppridge reminded me of the photograph that he took of a dying Robert Kennedy and of my reaction to it – it is a beautiful photograph. I wonder whether the beauty of the photograph detracts from the story. Is it above all a thing of aesthetic delight and a storytelling image a distant second? I don't intend any disrespect by saying this. It's just that I wonder at the relationship between beauty and storytelling. Does beauty detract or obscure the story the photographer intends to tell? Or perhaps it enhances it somehow? In this episode of The Documentary Photographer, we touch on the issue of beauty in documentary images. We also look forward to the upcoming print sale to raise funds for medical relief in Syria.

Episode 15: Bill Eppridge and the Beautiful Death