My journey ends here...
Date of birth : December 16, 1939, Stockholm, Sweden.
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During his youth, he moved in New York, and worked as assistant of famous portrait photographer Irving Penn.
Assistant of photographer Bert Stern, he took the last picture of Marilyn in June 1962, in Los Angeles, a picture
Stern had wrongfully taken all the credit for himself (
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).
He travelled a lot through the world and took many celebrities in picture, as various as
Muhammad Ali (
), Woody Allen (
), Francis Ford Coppola (
), Angelina Jolie
(
), Nicole Kidman (
) or Dalaï-Lama (
).
He was also involved as a nature photographer.
He's the father of hockey player Par Nygard.
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