Julian Wasser

Julian Wasser started his career in photography in the Washington DC bureau of the Associated Press. While at Associated Press he met Weegee and rode with the famous news photographer as he shot photos of crime scenes in Washington. Weegee was a major influence on Wasser’s style of photography. After serving in the Navy in San Diego the former AP copyboy became a contract photographer for Time Magazine in Los Angeles doing assignments for Time, Life, and Fortune. His photographs have appeared in and been used as covers of Time, Newsweek, and People magazines in the United States.


He has done cover assignments for The Sunday Telegraph, and The Sunday Times colour supplements in London. His photos have appeared in US Magazine, Vanity Fair, TV Guide, Paris Match, Der Spiegel, Oggi, Hello, Playboy, Elle, Vogue, and GQ and in exhibitions in galleries and museums.

Jullian Wasser

Portrait of Joan Didion next to her Stringray, Hollywood, CA, 1968

recent gelatin silver print

20 x 24”

Jullian Wasser

Portrait of Joan Didion in front of her Stringray, Hollywood, CA, 1968

recent gelatin silver print

20 x 24”

edition of 15

Jullian Wasser

Portrait of Joan Didion next to her Stringray, Hollywood, CA, 1968

recent gelatin silver print

20 x 24”

edition of 15

 

Jullian Wasser

Portrait of Joan Didion in her Home, CA, 1968

recent gelatin silver print

24 x 20”

Jullian Wasser

Portrait of Joan Didion, Hollywood, CA, 1968

recent gelatin silver print

 

Jullian Wasser

Eve Babitz and Marcel Duchamp, Duchamp Retrospective, Pasadena Art Museum, 1963

recent gelatin silver print

8 x 10”

edition of 15

Jullian Wasser

Duchamp Playing Chess with a Nude (Eve Babitz), Duchamp Retrospective, Pasadena Art Museum, 1963

recent gelatin silver print

8 x 10”

edition of 15

Jullian Wasser

Duchamp Playing Chess with a Nude (Eve Babitz), Duchamp Retrospective, Pasadena Art Museum, 1963

recent gelatin silver print

8 x 10”

edition of 15

Jullian Wasser

Duchamp Playing Chess with a Nude (Eve Babitz), Duchamp Retrospective, Pasadena Art Museum, 1963

recent gelatin silver print

8 x 10”

edition of 15

Jullian Wasser

Marcel Duchamp and Walter Hopps at the Opening Reception, Duchamp Retrospective, Pasadena Art Museum, 1963

recent gelatin silver print

8 x 10”

edition of 15

Jullian Wasser

Marcel Duchamp and Walter Hopps Playing Chess at the Opening Reception, Duchamp Retrospective, Pasadena Art Museum, 1963

recent gelatin silver print

8 x 10”

edition of 15

Jullian Wasser

Ed Ruscha and Patty Callahan at the Opening Reception, Duchamp Retrospective, Pasadena Art Museum, 1963

recent gelatin silver print

10 x 8”

edition of 15

Jullian Wasser

Marcel Duchamp, Duchamp Retrospective, Pasadena Art Museum, 1963

recent gelatin silver print

10 x 8”

edition of 15

Jullian Wasser

Marcel Duchamp, Duchamp Retrospective, Pasadena Art Museum, 1963

recent gelatin silver print

10 x 8”

edition of 15

Jullian Wasser

Beatrice Wood and Marcel Duchamp at the Opening Reception, Duchamp Retrospective, Pasadena Art Museum, 1963

recent gelatin silver print

10 x 8”

edition of 15

Jullian Wasser

Larry Bell at the Opening Reception (Ed Moses and Robert Irwin in the background), Duchamp Retrospective, Pasadena Art Museum, 1963

recent gelatin silver print

8 x 10”

edition of 15

Jullian Wasser

Andy Warhol, Virginia Dwan, and Brook Hayword (Hopper) at the Opening Reception, Duchamp Retrospective, Pasadena Art Museum, 1963

recent gelatin silver print

8 x 10”

edition of 15

Jullian Wasser

Dennis Hopper, Taylor Mead and Brooke Hayward (Hopper), Duchamp Retrospective, Pasadena Art Museum, 1963

recent gelatin silver print

8 x 10”

edition of 15


Jullian Wasser

Culture Day at LACMA, 1968

chromogenic print

20 x 16”

Jullian Wasser

Frank Gehry, Ed Ruscha, KenPrice, Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston and Babs Altoon eating at Culture Day at LACMA, 1968

vintage gelatin silver print

16 x 20”

Jullian Wasser

Frank Gehry, Babs Altoon, Billy Al Bengston, Larry Bell, John Altoon, and Tony Berland at Culture Day at LACMA, 1968

chromogenic print

16 x 20”

Jullian Wasser

Culture Day at LACMA, 1968

chromogenic print

20 x 16”


Julian Wasser

Watts Riots (on wall of market), Los Angeles, CA, 1964

vintage gelatin silver print

8 x 10”

Julian Wasser

Bobby Kennedy, 1968

vintage gelatin silver print

8 x 10”

 

Julian Wasser

James Baldwin, Los Angeles, CA, 1965

vintage gelatin silver print

13.4 x 10.5”

Julian Wasser

Watts Riots (on floor of store), Los Angeles, CA, 1964

vintage gelatin silver print

10.4 x 13.6”

Julian Wasser

Arrest on Hollywood Blvd, 1970

recent gelatin silver print

20 x 24”


Julian Wasser

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, 1965

vintage gelatin silver print

13 x 8.75”

Julian Wasser

Whiskey A Go-Go, Los Angeles, 1964

recent gelatin silver print

20 x 24”

Julian Wasser

Canters Deli, Los Angles, CA, 1968

vintage gelatin silver print

13 x 9.7”

Julian Wasser

Sea Witch nightclub, Sunset Strip, 1966

recent gelatin silver print

20 x 24”

Julian Wasser

Hollywood Blvd, 1961

recent gelatin silver print

20 x 24”


Julian Wasser

Rolling Stones at the Satisfaction session, RCA Hollywood, 1965

vintage gelatin silver print

9 x 13”

Julian Wasser

Jackson Five, with 12-year-old Michael, jumping at their house (for TIME Magazine), 1970

recent gelatin silver print

20 x 24”

Julian Wasser

Sonny and Cher, 1964

vintage gelatin silver print

8 x 10”

Julian Wasser

David Bowie with Rodney Bingenheimer, 1972

vintage gelatin silver print

13 x 8.75”

Julian Wasser

Rod Stewart

vintage gelatin silver print

Julian Wasser

Brooke Hayward and Dennis Hopper at the Rudi Gernreich studio, 1972

vintage gelatin silver print

13 x 8.75”

Julian Wasser

The Beach Boys, 1963

vintage gelatin silver print

10 x 8”

Julian Wasser

Frank Zappa

vintage gelatin silver print

Julian Wasser

Neil Young, (for TIME Magazine), 1972

vintage gelatin silver print

13.25 x 10.25”

Julian Wasser

Jane Fonda (pregnant) demonstrating, Los Angeles, CA, 1973

vintage gelatin silver print

12 x 7”

Julian Wasser

Rudi Gernreich for TIME Magazine, 1967

vintage gelatin silver print

14 x 10.25”

Julian Wasser

Whisky a Go-Go, 1964

vintage gelatin silver print

14 x 11”

Julian Wasser

David Bowie with Rodney Bingenheimer, 1972

vintage gelatin silver print

13 x 8.75”

Julian Wasser

Dancing at EL Monte Legion Stadium, 1962

vintage gelatin silver print

13.25 x 10.4”

Julian Wasser

Dean Stockwell, Toni Basil, and Wallace Berman, 1964

vintage gelatin silver print

13 x 10”