George Holz was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in 1956. He grad­u­ated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 1980. While still a stu­dent, he appren­ticed with Helmut Newton, whose valu­able advice enabled his career.

As a young pho­tog­ra­pher, Holz lived in Milan and Paris where he worked for major mag­a­zines such as Lei, L’Officiel, Vogue Italia and Elle Magazine. He then moved to New York and pub­lished his pho­tos in famous pub­li­ca­tions such as Mademoiselle, Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Elizabeth Arden and Nike. He has pho­tographed many movie posters and album cov­ers, some of which are very well known, includ­ing Face Off with John Travolta and Nicolas Cage, and Madonna’s Borderline.

His 2016 mono­graph, Holz Hollywood: 30 Years of Portraits, is a vir­tual who’s who in the worlds of film, music, tele­vi­sion, sports and pol­i­tics, span­ning three decades. Angelina Jolie, Jack Nicholson, Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt, Mariah Carey, Serena and Venus Williams, and Javier Bardem are just a few of the peo­ple fea­tured in the book.

Holz gives inter­na­tional lec­tures in muse­ums and uni­ver­si­ties, leads work­shops and men­tors young pho­tog­ra­phers. Holz’s work has been exhib­ited in pres­ti­gious gal­leries and muse­ums around the world, and his pho­tographs are part of numer­ous pri­vate collections.