Adolph de meyer biography of michael

Baron de Meyer, the famous creator of American fashion photography, so greatly mystified his origins that any remark about his forbearers, his rise in society, or his establishment as a photographic artist is suspect.

His title was German as was his Jewish father, Adolphus Meyer. His mother was Scottish.

Adolph de meyer biography of michael jackson

He was born into wealth and educated in Germany (though he claimed French nativity). He gravitated toward London during the 1890s where his exquisite taste, fortune, and homosexuality brought him into the orbit of the Prince of Wales, whose retinue cultivated both the arts and unconventional manners.

In London, he entered into a "'marriage" with Olga Caracciolo, reputedly the illegitimate daughter of Edward VII, Prince of Wales, who acknowledged her only in the role of godfather.

World War I destroyed the de Meyer family fortune, forcing Adolph and Olga to the United States where he contracted to be chief photographer for Conde Nast's publications Vogue and Vani