--- title: Sinatra, Hepburn, Brando: Hollywood Photographs by Sid Avery description: Though his subjects were already icons in their own time, Sid Avery's photographic approach was something new. canonical: https://time.com/4537774/sid-avery-hollywood-photos/ author: Kenneth Bachor article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-21T16:00:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:24.584Z article:section: History og:title: Sinatra, Hepburn, Brando: Hollywood Photographs by Sid Avery og:description: From Audrey Hepburn to Frank Sinatra og:url: https://time.com/4537774/sid-avery-hollywood-photos/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt65c3ea3eaabda837/6988aafd5f570f1a87b22fb3/sid-avery-facebook.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2229 og:image:height: 1254 og:image:alt: © Sid Avery / mptvimages.com og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sinatra, Hepburn, Brando: Hollywood Photographs by Sid Avery twitter:description: From Audrey Hepburn to Frank Sinatra twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt65c3ea3eaabda837/6988aafd5f570f1a87b22fb3/sid-avery-facebook.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See Classic Hollywood Through Sid Avery's Lens > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. by [Kenneth Bachor](https://time.com/author/kenneth-bachor/) ## Kenneth Bachor Oct 21, 2016 4:00 PM UTC  © Sid Avery / mptvimages.com © Sid Avery / mptvimages.com Sid Avery—Morrison Hotel Gallery by [Kenneth Bachor](https://time.com/author/kenneth-bachor/) ## Kenneth Bachor Oct 21, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **Correction appended, 2:42 p.m.** During the golden era that was Hollywood in the 1950s and ’60s, the work of photographer Sid Avery often appeared in the pages of outlets like LIFE and _The Saturday Evening Post_. But, though his subjects were already icons in their own time—stars like Frank Sinatra and Audrey Hepburn—his approach was something new. He would often shot notable people at their homes, in a casual environment, making the stars seem more accessible to the average person. After Avery passed away in 2002, [the New York _Times_ wrote ](http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/16/arts/sid-avery-83-candid-photographer-of-film-stars.html)that his work “was a departure from the glamorized, soft-focus portraits of an earlier Hollywood era when images of the stars were tightly controlled by the major studios.” Avery’s approach didn’t just result in a candid look at classic stars. It was also a recipe for classic stories. Case in point: the 1953 episode [when Avery shot Marlon Brando](http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/03/sid-avery-hollywood-photographer) at the actor’s bungalow in Beverly Glen, Calif. The photographer had been assigned to photograph Brando, who would go onto win an Oscar for Best Actor for _On the Waterfront_ two years later, for _The Saturday Evening Post_. Rather than focusing on the glamorous side of the star’s life, Avery asked Brando to clean the messy house, capturing Brando outside, carrying a Campbell’s soup box full of trash. Along the way, Avery also got to observe James Dean on the set of _Giant_ in 1955 and ride as Steve McQueen’s passenger in the actor’s Jaguar in 1960. [_Get your history fix in one place: sign up for the weekly TIME History newsletter_](http://time.com/newsletter) [The Morrison Hotel Gallery](https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/photographer/default.aspx?photographerID=1190) is now hosting Avery’s first solo show in New York City in almost two decades, _The Private Moments of Hollywood’s Golden Era: The Photography of Sid Avery_. “I guess in a way, Sid sort of defined in photography what we would now call the _Mad Men_ era,” says Morrison Hotel Gallery co-owner Peter Blachley, “It was really a classy time for a photographer to be out working.” To Blachley, Avery’s[ iconic image of the cast of the original _Ocean’s Eleven_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RUjIw5Ao5k) around a pool table speaks to his ability to turn stars into symbols of a moment in time. (Avery would later be called back to [mimic his own iconic photograph](http://media.vanityfair.com/photos/545e16eba34891e22165312b/master/w%5F800,h%5F900,c%5Flimit/image.jpg) for the remake in 2001, shortly before his death.) “It takes a very skilled photographer to be able to capture history that way and have it live on,” says Blachley. _The Private Moments of Hollywood’s Golden Era: The Photography of Sid Avery_ opens Friday and runs through Nov. 6th at New York City’s [Morrison Hotel Gallery](https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/slideshow.aspx). **Correction:** The original version of this story misstated the years during which Sid Avery shot Steve McQueen and Marlon Brando. Those photographs were taken in 1960 and 1953.  Marlon Brando photographed in his Beverly Glen home for the Saturday Evening Post article, "The Star Who Sneers at Hollywood," June 6, 1953. Sid Avery—Morrison Hotel Gallery  Frank Sinatra at Capitol Records, 1954. Sid Avery—Morrison Hotel Gallery  Frank Sinatra at Capitol Records, 1954. Sid Avery—Morrison Hotel Gallery  Johnny Carson on the set of Carson's Cellar, his first TV show, 1953. Sid Avery—Morrison Hotel Gallery  Joanne Woodward won an Oscar for The Three Faces of Eve. Paul Newman had never won an Oscar so Joanne made one for him called "Noscar" (No Oscar) and presented it to him, 1958. Sid Avery—Morrison Hotel Gallery  Audrey Hepburn on the Paramount lot, 1957. Sid Avery—Morrison Hotel Gallery  Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh visit Alfred Hitchcock in his studio office in advance of filming Psycho, 1959. Sid Avery—Morrison Hotel Gallery  James Dean on the set of Giant, 1955. Sid Avery—Morrison Hotel Gallery  Steve McQueen traveling down Nichols Canyon in his 1957 Jaguar XKSS, 1960. Sid Avery—Morrison Hotel Gallery  Ocean's Eleven original cast photographed on set, 1960\. From left to right: Richard Conte, Buddy Lester, Joey Bishop, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Akim Tamiroff, Richard Benedict, Henry Silva, Norman Fell and Clem Harvey. 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