{"id":4453,"date":"2015-06-21T15:14:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T15:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/?page_id=4453"},"modified":"2018-06-26T13:08:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T13:08:56","slug":"photographer-len-steckler","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/photographer-len-steckler\/","title":{"rendered":"LEN STECKLER"},"content":{"rendered":"

(May 6, 1928\u00a0– August 11, 2016)
\n\"len-steckler-portrait-small\"<\/a>Nearly everyone living in America during the past fifty years has seen the work of Len Steckler. A photographer, illustrator, painter and film director, Mr. Steckler\u2019s scope of published art is remarkable by any standard. As an illustrator, he introduced the world to Diet Pepsi and to story illustrations appearing in The Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal <\/em>and McCalls <\/em>magazines.<\/p>\n

His photographs appeared in Life <\/em>and Look <\/em>magazines, and major advertising campaigns of the day. He helped shape the direction of modern fashion and beauty photography, stoking the careers of supermodels such as Jennifer O\u2019Neill, Cybil Shepherd, Susan Blakeley and Maud Adams with trend-setting images in magazines such as Vogue <\/em>and Harper\u2019s Bazaar<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Moving from still photography to commercial filmmaking, Steckler again established himself as a leading innovator. No one watching television in the early Seventies can possibly forget his \u201cTake it off \u2013 Take it all off\u201d commercials for Noxema shaving cream, or his putting Joe Namath in Hanes pantyhose.\u00a0 Parents can thank Steckler for the live-action direction in the Emmy\u2122 award-winning children\u2019s program Free To Be You and Me<\/em>. He also produced and directed motion pictures for television.<\/p>\n

In recent years, he has been an exhibited and collected artist, recognized for his \u201cevolutionary\u201d style. Mr. Steckler died in Los Angeles on August 11, 2016 surrounded by his family. \u00a0His legacy and work will continue to be seen starting with the release Len Steckler: REFLECTION The Man Behind The Mirror Collection<\/a><\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0the first in a series of photo exhibit and a soon to be released book of Mr. Steckler photo work.\u00a0 A new photo exhibit is set to be released, entitled “Mad To Mod” which features the radical changes in fashion during the conservative fashion of late 50’s through the mod period of the mid to late 60’s.<\/p>\n

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(May 6, 1928\u00a0– August 11, 2016) Nearly everyone living in America during the past fifty years has seen the work of Len Steckler. A photographer, illustrator, painter and film director, Mr. Steckler\u2019s scope of published art is remarkable by any standard. As an illustrator, he introduced the world to Diet Pepsi and to story illustrations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4453"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9469,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4453\/revisions\/9469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}