Rico Puhlmann

Rico Puhlmann (1934 - 17 July 1996), was a German fashion photographer.

Puhlmann was born in Berlin in 1934, and from 1951 to 1955, studied fashion design, art design, and art history at the Berlin University of the Arts (Hochschule für Bildende Künste Berlin).

He worked for magazines including Constanze, Burda, Vogue, Glamour, GQ, Harper's Bazaar. He photographed people including Isabella Rossellini, Cindy Crawford, Mel Gibson, Richard Avedon, Suzy Parker, Cheryl Tiegs, Naomi Campbell, and Hildegard Knef.

Puhlmann moved to the US in 1970, and died on 17 July 1996, on TWA Flight 800 from New York to Paris, 12 minutes after take-off.