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Andrew Maclear | |
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| Born | 13 June 1950 |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Occupation(s) | Photographer, screenwriter and documentalist |
| Website | www |
Andrew Maclear is an English photographer, screenwriter and documentalist. [1] [2]
He was born in Lewes (East Sussex) in 1950 and He grew up in rural England. He attended various regional schools, including Horncastle, the experimental free school in Sharpthorne as well as Hurstpierpoint College for a brief period before leaving his education uncompleted at sixteen.
Already interested in photography, he went to London and found a job as a messenger with a film production company where he eventually began training as an editor. He abandoned this and instead he took up photography in a non-professional capacity and began capturing the life of Sixties London, and the luminaries who occupied it. [3] Untrained yet with an eye for composition, his images of London in this period have been seen extensively in magazines, [4] [5] newsprint and books and are represented by Getty Images. [6] In his early twenties, Maclear developed an interest in documentary film making, inspired by his half-brother, Michael Maclear, a celebrated television journalist and Vietnam war correspondent. Andrew Maclear produced several documentaries including a profile of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, the Swiss born psychologist who challenged and liberated the American perception toward death and the care of the dying.
Maclear moved into screen writing in the early 80's and spent a decade in Los Angeles from where he wrote a number of speculative screenplays which were optioned by a gamut of producers, amongst them George Harrison’s Handmade Films, Alan Marshall and Alan Parker, and the Hollywood producers Jack Wiener and Dodi Fayed. In the early 80's, following the success of a feature film set in the city of London starring Rebecca de Mornay, he developed a 26 hour TV series for English television on the same theme; money traders and their lives. Maclear wrote innumerable episodes of established TV series and then developed a further 26 hour original series, Space Island One, produced by Margaret Matheson for Sky UK, German and Australian Television. He was then retained for two years to develop TV formats for Sony Pictures Television, London.
Maclear moved to Paris when he was fifty and continued writing screenplays. He latterly returned to photography and produced a book about the town of Soller in Mallorca, and latterly became a travel writer. [7] [8] He continues to sell and speak about his photographs from London during the nineteen sixties, many of which are acknowledged as being emblematic of this extraordinary cultural and sociological period. [9] [10]
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