A famous photographer (Use of English Advanced)

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Read the text below and use the words given in brackets to form a word that fits in the gap.

A famous photographer



The ________ (DIE) of photographer Bob Willoughby was announced earlier this year. In 1953, a then relatively ________(KNOW) film actress going by the name of Audrey Hepburn arrived back in Hollywood after making the film Roman Holiday. After a tiring day of ________(PUBLIC) shots for the film that would earn her an Oscar, she retired to a studio car where one more photograph was taken to capture her elfin beauty. Now that picture is being offered up for sale in a limited _________(EDIT) by the estate of the man who took it - Bob Willoughby, whose candid yet _______(GLAMOUR) images of generations of Hollywood starts made him the photographer of __________ (CHOOSE)  for the big studios.

The extent to which the ________(DENY) charms of Hepburn retain their appeal was _________ (LINE) last month when all 1.000 copies of a book cataloguing Willoughby's pictures of the star costing $450 each and containing the ________(SIGN) of the photographer, sold out instantly. Some prints of teh star are being sold as part of an exhibition of Willoughby's work in Brussels, the city of Hepburn's ________(BORN). Willoughby retired thirty years ago. __________(SURPRISE) perhaps, he spent most of his retirement not taking photograohs but translating poetry,

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