Lester Bookbinder

{{Short description|American photographer and commercial director}}

Lester Bookbinder (1929 – 9 January 2017){{cite web |title=Death Announcements |url=http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/210279/bookbinder |website=Daily Telegraph |access-date=3 August 2021}}{{cite web |title=Bookbinder, Lester |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/lester-bookbinder-obituary?pid=183676872 |website=New York Times |access-date=3 August 2021}} was an American photographer and commercial director who worked in the United Kingdom.{{cite web |last1=Dye |first1=David |title=LESTER BOOKBINDER: Advertising |url=https://davedye.com/2015/11/05/lester-bookbinder-advertising/ |website=Stuff from the Loft |date=5 November 2015 |access-date=3 August 2021}}{{cite web |title=1664: Quel Numéro |url=http://www.culturepub.fr/videos/1664-quel-numero/ |website=CulturePub.fr |access-date=3 August 2021}}{{cite web |last1=Milo |first1=Pim |title=Reclamefotografie 3: Lester Bookbinder |url=https://focusmagazine.nl/2018/06/18/reclamefotografie-3-lester-bookbinder/ |website=Focus |date=18 June 2018 |access-date=3 August 2021}}{{cite journal |last1=Waterhouse |first1=Robert |title=Still lifer |journal=Design Journal |date=1971 |issue=273 |pages=38–42 |url=https://www.vads.ac.uk/digital/collection/DIAD/id/6122/ |access-date=3 August 2021}}{{cite journal |last1=Miller |first1=Gerry |title=Bookbinder, Snapper |journal=Creative Review |date=1982 |pages=15–19}}

Bookbinder trained with Rouben Samberg before moving to London. He established a career as a prominent fine art and studio advertising photographer, best-known for complicated compositions and studio effect shots.{{cite web |last1=Dye |first1=David |title=LESTER BOOKBINDER: The Commercials. |url=https://davedye.com/2015/09/06/lester-bookbinder-t-v/ |website=Stuff from the Loft |date=6 September 2015 |access-date=3 August 2021}}{{cite web |title=Kronenbourg 1664 |url=https://www.luerzersarchive.com/en/magazine/commercial-detail/kronenbourg-1664-25338.html |website=Lürzer's Archive |date=February 1989 |access-date=3 August 2021}}{{cite web |title=Talent You Should Know: Lester Bookbinder |url=https://householdname.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/10/talent-you-sh-3.html |publisher=Household Name |access-date=3 August 2021}}{{cite book|author1=Miglena Sternadori|author2=Tim Holmes|title=The Handbook of Magazine Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c7rLDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA326|date=21 April 2020|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-119-15152-4|pages=324, 326}} He also directed advertisements and the music videos for songs including "Romeo and Juliet" by Dire Straits.{{cite web |title=Dire Straits Presents Making Movies (1980) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7e4b278c |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210803015413/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7e4b278c |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 3, 2021 |publisher=BFI |access-date=3 August 2021}}{{cite book|title=Effizienz in der Werbung 90|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rTNlviFv_qwC&pg=PA85|publisher=GWA|isbn=978-3-923251-51-3|pages=85–89}}