Marysa Maslansky, Founder of the Renowned Visages Photo Agency, Dies at 82

Marysa Maslansky, whose Visages Photo Agency represented such A-list photographers as Herb Ritts, Mary Ellen Mark and George Hurrell, has died at 82. Her clients included Herb Ritts, Mary Ellen Mark, George Hurrell, Paul Jasmin and William Claxton. Marysa Maslansky, whose influential Visages Photo Agency represented such A-list photographers as Herb Ritts, Mary Ellen Mark and George Hurrell in the 1980s and ’90s, has died. She was 82. Maslansky died Oct. 9 at her home in Los Angeles after a long illness, a family spokesperson announced. Born in Pas-de-Calais, France, on April 27, 1944, Maslansky settled in Los Angeles in 1969 and worked as a journalist for the Sygma Photo News agency before heading Gamma Liaison, the L.A.

branch of Gamma, the prominent French photo agency. In 1980, she founded Visages, and in addition to Ritts, Mark and Hurrell, the agency would become home to many other iconic celebrity and fashion photographers, among them William Claxton, Greg Gorman, Matthew Rolston, Paul Jasmin, Sofia Coppola, Brad Branson and Firooz Zahedi. When Ritts started with Maslansky at Visages, his fee was in the range of $750 a day, the Los Angeles Times wrote back then. But by 1990, he was earning about $20,000 a day as one of the highest-paid commercial photographers in the U.S. at the time. Visages closed its doors