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created on: 14/06/2023
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Peter Andrew Gowland (April 3, 1916, Los Angeles, California, United States – March 17, 2010, Pacific Palisades, California, United States (aged 93)) was a famous American glamour photographer and occasional actor.
He was known for designing and building his own studio equipment and was active professionally for six decades with his business partner, Alice Beatrice Adams, whom he married in 1941.
With their expertise, the two have written over 35 books and guides related to portrait and glamour photography.

From 1942-1945, Peter worked as an engineering cinematographer for North American Aviation, while he and Alice spent evenings and weekends taking portraits and speculative advertising photographs. In 1945 he was shipped to Germany with the Air Force, where he was in charge of the photo lab at Furstenfeldbruck. It was during this time, between 1942 and 1946, that the war years were taken. During WWII, because pinups became popular with armed forces, Alice sold some of their beach pin-ups as magazine covers while Peter was in the service.

After he was discharged in 1946, Peter and Alice built their first studio home in West LA.

Gowland shot more than 1,000 magazine covers, mostly glamour shots of female models but also portraits of celebrities including Rock Hudson and Robert Wagner. His covers included Rolling Stone, Playboy, and Modern Photography.
He invented elite cameras and equipment that he used to shoot pinups and magazine covers. In the late 1950s, Gowland also invented the twin-lens Gowlandflex camera, which used 4-by-5 inch film for high-quality pictures. The camera has since been used by such photographers as Annie Leibovitz and Yousuf Karsh.

Gowland grew up on movie sets and worked as a film extra in his youth. He learned photo lighting and techniques from watching movies being shot. The son of Gibson Gowland and Sylvia Andrew, both actors, he acted in at least 12 films, mostly uncredited. He had a small part in Citizen Kane.

He died of surgical complications after fracturing his hip.
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