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  1. May 29, 2023 · In its early days, the film studio featured a female Roman soldier holding a shield in her left hand as its lead image, before it was updated in 1928 to a woman with a draped flag and torch.

    • The Story Behind The Photo Shoot
    • An Apartment Studio with Simple Props
    • The ‘Torch Lady’ Portrait That Became An Iconic Logo
    • A Long and Successful Career in Photography

    It all started when Anderson’s friend, the talented illustrator Michael J. Deas,who has designed 16 commemorative stamps for the US Postal Service, asked the photographer to shoot a reference photo for a painting. At the time, she had no idea how iconic the artwork would eventually become. “Michael had a vision for the piece,” Anderson tells PetaPi...

    “After moving my dining room table out of the way and converting the living room into a studio, I set up a mottled gray backdrop. I placed a couple of boxes on the floor to let the fabric drape. I put a Polaroid back on the Hasselblad camera to start with some test shots.” In the old days of film, a kind of early “chimping” was still prevalent, esp...

    Anderson was delighted with the images she produced that day. The photographer has shot many reference photos for Deas over the years, including book covers and commissioned portraits. However, none have equaled the movie logo’s fame. Comparing the original photo by Anderson to the finished logo artwork by Deas, one can see how closely the artist s...

    Anderson first picked up a camera in college and has never looked back. She says she is happy to have been a part of the glory days of print journalism when she was a staff photographer at The Times-Picayunenewspaper for 28 years. In 2006, her coverage of Hurricane Katrina was included in the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the newspaper. And...

  2. Oct 14, 2017 · Undoubtedly one of the most recognizable logos in the film industry is Columbia Pictures’ which prominently features a lady that probably reminds people about the Statue of Liberty, more or less. So what’s the story behind this logo and who is that lady?

  3. Feb 24, 2022 · Evelyn Venable, who starred in the 1934 movie Death Takes a Holiday, and Wizard of Oz star Amelia Batchelor have all posed as the torch lady. Artist Michael Deas was hired in the 1990s to return the figure to her “classic look” after Columbia was bought by Sony Pictures.

  4. Jun 8, 2023 · Columbia Pictures had commissioned Deas to update its longtime logo, showing a woman holding a torch similar to that of the Statue of Liberty.

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  5. Feb 24, 2022 · If you’ve ever watched a movie by Columbia Pictures then you know who the Torch Lady is—the woman who appears at the very beginning of every movie. The original photo was born in the apartment of Pulitzer Prize-winning New Orleans photographer Kathy Anderson back in 1991.

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