Richard Skipper Celebrates Bill Eppridge w/Adrienne Aurichio 8/03/22

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Adrienne Aurichio is the Director of Bill Eppridge’s photographic archive and the editor of Becoming Barbra published in 2018. Adrienne spent twenty years as a picture editor at magazines, and book publishers. She and Bill met in 1986 while they were both working at Sports Illustrated. He had previously been a staff photographer for Life magazine throughout the 1960s and early 1970s until that magazine ceased publishing as a weekly. They later married and spent 28 years together until his death in 2013. Bill said that his former boss at Life magazine told him to “find a good picture editor and marry her.” Their final collaboration, Becoming Barbra, was begun in 1994 and finally published 24 years later. Publishers were mistakenly worried that Streisand would sue them. The book is filled with photographs that Bill made of Streisand in 1963 before she was a star, and then in 1966 as she was about to star in Funny Girl on Broadway. He had full access and cooperation. There were no publicist restrictions. Eppridge’s archive became a full-time business for them after back surgery in 2003 curtailed Bill’s ability to travel as much as he had done before while at Sports Illustrated. Adrienne left her full time job and they began to produce museum exhibits, began a long collaboration with Monroe Gallery to sell fine art prints, and published more books. After Bill’s death, Adrienne continued to catalogue his work and finish the projects that they had begun. During their time together they produced 6 books of Bill’s work. Those include Jake: A Labrador retriever; Upland Passage; Robert Kennedy: The Last Campaign; A Time It Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties; The Beatles: Six Days That Changed the World; Becoming Barbra.