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Albert Watson

In 1973, Albert Watson produced a portrait of Alfred Hitchcock holding a dead goose with a ribbon around its neck for that year's Harper's Bazaar's Christmas issue. This iconic image has become one of Watson's most famous portraits on a list that has since grown to include hundreds of well-known photographs of musicians, models, actors and politicians. 


Watson’s photographs garnered the attention of top fashion magazines such as Mademoiselle, GQ and Harper’s Bazaar. In addition to this, he has produced works for hundreds of major advertising campaigns for corporations, including Chanel, Revlon and Levi's. He landed his first job for Vogue in 1976.


The photographer won a Grammy Award in 1975 for the cover of the Mason Proffit album “Come and Gone". Watson received a Ph.D from the University of Dundee in 1995 and was inducted into the Scottish Fashion Awards Hall of Fame in 2006. 



Born 1942
Hometown Edinburgh, UK
Education
Albert Watson studied graphic design at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, and film and television at the Royal College of Art. He received his Ph.D from the University of Dundee, 1955.