Actress Drew Barrymore Best Photograph

Actress Drew Barrymore best photograph at young age, also a photographer’s opinion on this assignment.

During the early 1980's I worked for a number of assignment photographers for People and Life magazines. I was freelancing as a photographer's assistant and in this case I was working with my friend NYC & LA photographer Tony Costa from People Magazine. Our assignment was to photograph a young actress fresh from the success of Steven Spielberg's movie E.T. From the Hollywood Hills, famed photographer Douglas Kirkland's studio we set up for our session with Drew.
I do not recall her age at the time of this assignment - 1982, but her charismatic presence - charm and a natural talent for acting struck us all. It was easy to see she was destined for stardom. This portrait is actually a test polaroid I shot, used to check both exposure and lighting. I kept several polaroids over the years from working with celebrities from Mr. Olympia & Mr. Universe/actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Playboy Playmates, Sonny & Cher, Johnny Carson, Jacqueline Bisset, Rock Hudson, Peter Fonda, the list goes on and on and... . Unfortunately, many of these Polaroid momentous were lost during moves. I only recently this polaroid.