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Biography: 
1886 Born in New York City, NY (US)
Karl Struss studied photography with Clarence White. In 1910 he exhibited with members of the Photo-Secession and later had work reproduced in Camera Work. He took over White's studio from 1914 to 1917 where he made portraits as well as advertising and magazine illustrations. During these same years he continued to exhibit in pictorial salons and invented the Struss Pictorial Lens, a soft-focus lens popular with artist-photographers of the period.
In 1919 Struss moved to Hollywood where he worked as a still photographer for Cecil B. DeMille, advancing to film cameraman after only three months. Unlike most other cameramen and still photographers working in Hollywood at the time, Struss himself was trained as an artist-photographer. With his aesthetic orientation and technical ability, Struss produced some of the first highly stylized portraits and production stills in Hollywood. He won the first Academy Award for cinematography in 1929 for his work on "Sunrise" and went on the photograph well over one hundred films.
1981 Died in Los Angeles, CA (US)
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Public exhibitions 10
Solo shows 1
2004
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| The Nudes of Karl Struss - Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York City, NY |
Group shows 9
2009
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| Photographs from the Estate of Jonathan Stein - Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA |
2007
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| American Beauties - Amerikanische Lebenswelten in der Fotografie. - Deichtorhallen, Hamburg |
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| 25 years A Celebration - Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City, NY |
2005
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| Summer Skin - Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Camera Work and Other Gravures by Stieglitz, Steichen, Kasebier,White and Others - Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA |
2004
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| Setting Sail: Nautical Photos - Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA |
2003
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| New York - Capitale de la photographie (1900 – 2000) - Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne |
2002
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| New York Observed: The Mythology of the City - UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI |
2001
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| 10th Anniversary Exhibition - Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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USA
| | Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA
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Public collections 6
Bermuda
| | The Masterworks Foundation, Paget
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USA
| | Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, East Logan, UT
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| | Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA
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