A portrait of Dionne Warwick taken by Wallace Seawell

Wallace Seawell (1916 – 2007), a celebrity photographer whose West Hollywood home was for decades one of the country’s most productive glamour factories, turning out thousands of portraits of movie stars, singers, presidents, kings and the Gabor sisters (all three).

Mr. Seawell’s subjects included Elizabeth Taylor, Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Nat King Cole, Janet Leigh, Jayne Mansfield, Audrey Hepburn, Tony Curtis, Paul Newman, Ava Gardner, Joan Collins and Diana Ross.

Besides studio work, Mr. Seawell also took his camera on the road, accompanying the Harlem Globetrotters on three around-the-world tours and taking promotional photographs at far-flung tourist spots for Braniff, Pan Am and Scandinavian Airlines. He once served as the official photographer for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus.