Talk on Portrait Photography by Heinz Lechner

Heinz Lechner will return to talk about primarily lighting in portrait photography on October 17.

Born in Schwaz, Austria, Heinz Lechner began his career as a professional photographer in 1975. In 1981 he began creating a series of photographs on the theme of reality and illusion through reflections in windows. His work has been in numerous exhibitions in museums and galleries in Vienna, Stuttgart, San Francisco and New York, and has been published in Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and on album covers for Leonard Bernstein and Claudio Abbado.

Lechner’s “Men at Work” series included portraits of Federico Fellini, Muammar el Gaddafi, Bruno Kreisky and John Paul II among others.

His “Portrait Überarbeitungen” series included portraits of Richard Serra, Miles Davis, John Mayall, Simon Wiesenthal, Federico Fellini, Michael Jackson, Bob Geldof, Queen Elizabeth, the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, Allen Ginsberg and many others.