Puhlmann was born in Berlin in 1934. He studied fashion design, art design, and art history at the Berlin University of the Arts (Hochschule für Bildende Künste Berlin) from 1951 to 1955.
He worked for magazines such as Constanze, Burda, Vogue, Glamour, GQ, Harper's Bazaar. He photographed people including Isabella Rossellini, Cindy Crawford, Mel Gibson, Richard Avedon, Suzy Parker, Cheryl Tiegs, Naomi Campbell, Hildegard Knef and Agnieszka Kotlarska.
Puhlmann moved to the US in 1970, and died on 17 July 1996, on TWA Flight 800 from New York to Paris, 12 minutes after take-off.∼Fashion Photographer. Victim of the TWA 800 plane crash. Rico Puhlmann, 62, who lived in Manhattan and also had a home in the Hamptons, was an internationally known fashion photographer who shot more than 125 covers for Harper's Bazaar. He was on his way to Paris on assignment for Italian publishing company Rizzoli Periodici. Born in Berlin in 1934, Puhlmann was known as a child movie star before he moved to New York City in the early 1970s. He worked for a variety of fashion magazines, including Harper's Bazaar, GQ, Glamour and German Vogue. During the 1970s and 1980s, Puhlmann was the top photographer for Harper's Bazaar, Michele Mazzola, the magazine's former special projects editor, said. Richard Sinnott, a fashion editor for Harper's Bazaar, recalled doing a shoot with Puhlmann and Gabrielle Reece in 115-degree temperatures in the deserts outside of Las Vegas. "We draped wet towels all over our heads," Sinnott said. "I did more than fifty shots with him, and I always looked forward to working with him." He did maybe half the covers in any given year, Mazzola said. "He was knowledgeable about everything, from flowers to fashion to photography. He was a real Renaissance man." "He was probably one of the top photographers of the time," said Sinnott. Puhlmann is survived by two brothers, Klaus and Heinz Puhlmann, both of Berlin.
Puhlmann was born in Berlin in 1934. He studied fashion design, art design, and art history at the Berlin University of the Arts (Hochschule für Bildende Künste Berlin) from 1951 to 1955.
He worked for magazines such as Constanze, Burda, Vogue, Glamour, GQ, Harper's Bazaar. He photographed people including Isabella Rossellini, Cindy Crawford, Mel Gibson, Richard Avedon, Suzy Parker, Cheryl Tiegs, Naomi Campbell, Hildegard Knef and Agnieszka Kotlarska.
Puhlmann moved to the US in 1970, and died on 17 July 1996, on TWA Flight 800 from New York to Paris, 12 minutes after take-off.∼Fashion Photographer. Victim of the TWA 800 plane crash. Rico Puhlmann, 62, who lived in Manhattan and also had a home in the Hamptons, was an internationally known fashion photographer who shot more than 125 covers for Harper's Bazaar. He was on his way to Paris on assignment for Italian publishing company Rizzoli Periodici. Born in Berlin in 1934, Puhlmann was known as a child movie star before he moved to New York City in the early 1970s. He worked for a variety of fashion magazines, including Harper's Bazaar, GQ, Glamour and German Vogue. During the 1970s and 1980s, Puhlmann was the top photographer for Harper's Bazaar, Michele Mazzola, the magazine's former special projects editor, said. Richard Sinnott, a fashion editor for Harper's Bazaar, recalled doing a shoot with Puhlmann and Gabrielle Reece in 115-degree temperatures in the deserts outside of Las Vegas. "We draped wet towels all over our heads," Sinnott said. "I did more than fifty shots with him, and I always looked forward to working with him." He did maybe half the covers in any given year, Mazzola said. "He was knowledgeable about everything, from flowers to fashion to photography. He was a real Renaissance man." "He was probably one of the top photographers of the time," said Sinnott. Puhlmann is survived by two brothers, Klaus and Heinz Puhlmann, both of Berlin.
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