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{{Infobox person
| name=Keith Owen Munyan, Jr.<br>
(Celebrity photographer in Los Angeles, California)
| image =
| imagesize =
| birthdate=April 10, 1961
| birth_place=Leesville, Vernon Parish<br>[[Louisiana]]<br>
Reared in Mangham, Richland Parish
|spouse=Single<br>
Parents:<br>
[[Keith "Moose" Munyan|Keith "Moose" Munyan, Sr.]]<br>
Lucille Carter Munyan
}}
'''Keith Owen Munyan, Jr.''' (born April 10, 1961),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/keith-munyan/e618378713130|title=|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=March 18, 2018}}</ref>is a commercial [[photographer]] based in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], whose client list includes a dozen or more actors and actresses.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amazon.com/Hilary-Duff-Access-Matthew-Rettenmund/dp/0425205193|title=Hilary Duff: All Access|publisher=Amazon.com|date=July 5, 2005|author=Matthew Rettenmund|accessdate=March 18, 2018}}<./ref> His work has appeared in [[magazine]]s, album packaging, books, billboards, calendars, [[television]], and films.<ref name=weddingphoto/>
For eighteen years before he became a photographer, Munyan was a model and appeared in such television series as ''Extra'', ''Hard Copy'', and ''Access Hollywood''. He was featured on billboards and calendars for Budweiser Light and Diet Coke, acted in commercials, and modeled swimsuits."<ref name=kpeoples>{{cite web|url=http://www.agendamag.com/backissues_2004_to_2009/2011/05/keith-munyan-making-the-transition-from-model-to-photographer-look-easy/|author=Kaylene Peoples|title=Keith Munyan Making the Transition from Model to Photographer Look Easy|date=Spring 2007|accessdate=March 18, 2018}}</ref> He is a wedding photographer with a studio in Palm Springs, California,<ref name=weddingphoto>{{cite web|url=http://www.weddingphotographybykeithmunyan.com/about.html|title=Keith Munyan Wedding Photography Palm Springs|publisher=Weddingphotographybykeithmunyan.com|accessdate=March 18, 2018}}</ref> but his main work is done at his residence in North Hollywood in the San Fernando Valley.<ref name=kpeoples/>
==Background==
Munyan is a native of Leesville in Vernon Parish in western [[Louisiana]], the home of the [[United States Army]] base at nearby [[Fort Polk]]. His father, [[Keith "Moose" Munyan]], Sr. (1932-1996), a native of Jackson, [[Ohio]], and a corporal in the [[United States Marine Corps]] in the [[Korean War]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=17259010|title=Keith Owen Munyan [Sr.] obituary|publisher=Oldfindagrave.com|accessdate=March 18, 2018}}</ref> coached in Leesville from 1959 to 1963. When Keith was two years of age, his family moved to the [[village]] of Mangham in Richland Parish in northeastern Louisiana. The senior Munyan coached [[football]], [[basketball]], and [[baseball]] at tiny Mangham High School from 1963 to 1989. Football teams under Coach Munyan compiled an outstanding record of 204 wins, 78 losses, and 6 ties. He led his Mangham Dragons to sixteen district championships and was selected "District Coach of the Year" on eighteen occasions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lcwildcats.net/hof.aspx?hof=37&kiosk=|title=Hall of Fame: Keith "Moose" Munyan|publisher=Louisiana College|location=[[Pineville, Louisiana]]|accessdate=September 24, 2017}}</ref> In 2003, Coach Munyan was inducted posthumously into the Louisiana High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lhsaa.org/affiliations/hall-of-fame/979|title=Hall of Fame Inductees|date=2003|publisher=Louisiana High School Athletic Association|accessdate=September 24, 2017}}</ref>From 1975 to 1979, Keith Munyan played football under his father's coaching as well as basketball and baseball.
Munyan's mother, the former Lucille Carter (1931-2013), a native of Hattiesburg, [[Mississippi]], served on the Mangham Town Council, was active in the [[United Methodist]] Church, and retired from the federal agency, the Farmers Home Administration office in Mangham. Munyan has two sisters, both of whom are veteran [[educator]]s, Toby M. Butler (born 1955) and husband Michael Kent Butler (born 1954) of Mangham and Debbie M. Price (born 1957) and husband George Allen Price, Jr. (born 1956), of Winnsboro in nearby Franklin Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Munyan&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=2013&GSdyrel=in&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=111137727&df=all&|title=Lucille Carter Munyan obituary|publisher=Old.findagrave.com|accessdate=March 18, 2018}}</ref>
After high school, Munyan attended the University of Louisiana at [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]] (then Northeast Louisiana University) but did not graduate. He instead became a decorator for a department store in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]], prior to launching his modeling career, which entailed travel, including a trip as far away as [[Barcelona]], [[Spain]].<ref name=kpeoples/>
==Self-educated photographer==
Munyan is a self-educated photographer. His experience as a model helped him to make the transition because while he was being photographed over the years, he "listened a lot regarding lighting and shooting. I found it easier for me because I enjoyed working with people." Munyan described patience as "the key to photography. Don't rush." He indicated that he is innovative and will "try anything, because I'm not always right. . . . "<ref name=kpeoples/>
Munyan once photographed Beth Broderick, who played the character Aunt Zelda on [[ABC]]'s ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch''. The program used all of his photographs, and the assignment led to new clients: Hilary Duff, Jessica Simpson, Cindy Crawford, Carmen Electra, Kelly Clarkson, Billy Dee Williams, and Rachel Melvin of [[NBC]]'s ''Days of Our Lives'' soap opera. In photographs of Melvin for ''Agenda'' magazine, Munyan used dead [[yucca]] trees that he had procured from his own property. Often he finds that various kinds of wood enhance the photographs.<ref name=kpeoples/>
Munyan describes proper lighting as the key to good photographs: "I've learned how to adjust my lighting around my clients. I figure out how to make it hotter, warmer, darker, depending on their skin tones, their hair, their makeup. . . . "<ref name=kpeoples/>
===Celebrity clients===
Kelly Clarkson was photographed in 2004 as the first ever winner in the ''American Idol'' program on Fox Television.<ref>http://popdirt.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=34982</ref>Another Munyan client is Mackenzie Rosman, who as a child star played Ruthie Camden on the former ''7th Heaven'' television series broadcast by [[Warner Bros. Entertainment]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forums.superiorpics.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=3&Number=1120238&Searchpage=1&Main=1120238&Words=+mwahokie&topic=&Search=true|title=|publisher=Forums.superiorpics.com|accessdate=March 18, 2018}}</ref>
Munyan said that in working with celebrities, he asks them to think of the people that they love or about their pets. He said that most celebrities are pleasant to photograph, but occasionally there are clock-watchers eager to be elsewhere. He recalled an unnamed model who posed for the trade publication ''Sophisticated Hair'' became so impatient that she threatened to walk out of the photo shoot. Munyan had to convince her to remain patient because she needed excellent photographs for the magazine.<ref name=kpeoples/>
Munyan has also photographed male models, including a photo shoot in book form called ''Hard, Solid, and Rare'''.<ref>||cite web|url=http://www.bookfinder.com/dir/i/Hard,_Solid_and_Rare/1892465272/|title=Hard, Solid and Rare|author=Keith Munyan|publisher=Bookfinder.com|accessdate=March 18, 2018}}</ref>
==Stormy Daniels v. Donald Trump==
Early in 2018, Munyan emerged one of four witnesses regarding allegations advanced by pornographic actress Stormy Daniels, who claims she had a sexual relationship with [[U.S. President]] [[Donald Trump]] from 2006 to 2007 and was paid $130,000 to keep the matter private. Munyan said that he listened to at least seven telephone conversations between Daniels and Trump which involved the offer of a condominium in [[Florida]] and an appearance on Trump's former television series, ''The Apprentice.'' "That man [Trump] can talk about nothing for hours," Munyan said.<ref name=sdaniels>{{cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/14/politics/stormy-daniels-friend-keith-munyan/index.html|title=Stormy Daniels' friend [Keith Munyan]: 'Trump would call all the time' during affair|publisher=[[CNN]]|date=March 14, 2018|author=Sara Sidner|accessdate=March 18, 2018}}</ref>
Munyan said that his connection to Daniels developed because both are Louisiana born, she in [[Baton Rouge]], and both enjoy [[horse]]s.<ref name=sdaniels/> Daniels is recognized as a nationally-ranked equestrian.<ref name=dailybeast/>
Munyan, a [[homosexual]], said that Daniels, who is estranged from her parents, considers both he and his partner, John Dean Baralle (born October 29, 1960), to be "my dads."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/03/stormy-daniels-gay-daddy-listened-calls-trump-details-sad/|title=Stormy Daniels' gay 'daddy' listened in on her calls with Trump. The details are sad.|author=Jeff Taylor|date=March 15, 2018|publisher=LGBTQnation.com|accessdate=March 18, 2018}}</ref> Barelle donated to the [[Hillary Clinton]] campaign in 2016 and has expressed continued anti-Trump comments on the Internet.<ref name=dailybeast>{{cite web|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-four-people-who-know-what-stormy-daniels-has-on-trump|title=The Four People Who Know What Stormy Daniels Has on Trump|publisher=''The Daily Beast''|date=March 9, 2018|author=Kate Briquelet|accessdate=March 18, 2018}}</ref>
In [[Facebook]] and [[Instagram]] posts in 2017, Munyan offered thanks to:
<blockquote>
[[transgender]]ed people serving bravely in our military" and to the "trans community in general for showing the world the true strength, perseverance, and resilience a human being can possess. Our president is an absolute moron and he will go down in history as such. . . . I love each and every one of my trans friends.<ref name=dailybeast/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/keith.munyan|title=Keith O. Munyan|publisher=[[Facebook]]|date=July 27, 2017|accessdate=March 18, 2018}}</ref></blockquote>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Munyan, Jr., Keith}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:California]]
[[Category:Photographers]]
[[Category:Homosexuals]]
[[Category:Liberals]]
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{{Infobox person
| name=Keith Owen Munyan, Jr.<br>
(Celebrity photographer in Los Angeles, California)
| image =
| imagesize =
| birthdate=April 10, 1961
| birth_place=Leesville, Vernon Parish<br>[[Louisiana]]<br>
Reared in Mangham, Richland Parish
|spouse=Single<br>
Parents:<br>
[[Keith "Moose" Munyan|Keith "Moose" Munyan, Sr.]]<br>
Lucille Carter Munyan
}}
'''Keith Owen Munyan, Jr.''' (born April 10, 1961),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/keith-munyan/e618378713130|title=|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=March 18, 2018}}</ref>is a commercial [[photographer]] based in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], whose client list includes a dozen or more actors and actresses.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amazon.com/Hilary-Duff-Access-Matthew-Rettenmund/dp/0425205193|title=Hilary Duff: All Access|publisher=Amazon.com|date=July 5, 2005|author=Matthew Rettenmund|accessdate=March 18, 2018}}<./ref> His work has appeared in [[magazine]]s, album packaging, books, billboards, calendars, [[television]], and films.<ref name=weddingphoto/>
For eighteen years before he became a photographer, Munyan was a model and appeared in such television series as ''Extra'', ''Hard Copy'', and ''Access Hollywood''. He was featured on billboards and calendars for Budweiser Light and Diet Coke, acted in commercials, and modeled swimsuits."<ref name=kpeoples>{{cite web|url=http://www.agendamag.com/backissues_2004_to_2009/2011/05/keith-munyan-making-the-transition-from-model-to-photographer-look-easy/|author=Kaylene Peoples|title=Keith Munyan Making the Transition from Model to Photographer Look Easy|date=Spring 2007|accessdate=March 18, 2018}}</ref> He is a wedding photographer with a studio in Palm Springs, California,<ref name=weddingphoto>{{cite web|url=http://www.weddingphotographybykeithmunyan.com/about.html|title=Keith Munyan Wedding Photography Palm Springs|publisher=Weddingphotographybykeithmunyan.com|accessdate=March 18, 2018}}</ref> but his main work is done at his residence in North Hollywood in the San Fernando Valley.<ref name=kpeoples/>
==Background==
Munyan is a native of Leesville in Vernon Parish in western [[Louisiana]], the home of the [[United States Army]] base at nearby [[Fort Polk]]. His father, [[Keith "Moose" Munyan]], Sr. (1932-1996), a native of Jackson, [[Ohio]], and a corporal in the [[United States Marine Corps]] in the [[Korean War]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=17259010|title=Keith Owen Munyan [Sr.] obituary|publisher=Oldfindagrave.com|accessdate=March 18, 2018}}</ref> coached in Leesville from 1959 to 1963. When Keith was two years of age, his family moved to the [[village]] of Mangham in Richland Parish in northeastern Louisiana. The senior Munyan coached [[football]], [[basketball]], and [[baseball]] at tiny Mangham High School from 1963 to 1989. Football teams under Coach Munyan compiled an outstanding record of 204 wins, 78 losses, and 6 ties. He led his Mangham Dragons to sixteen district championships and was selected "District Coach of the Year" on eighteen occasions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lcwildcats.net/hof.aspx?hof=37&kiosk=|title=Hall of Fame: Keith "Moose" Munyan|publisher=Louisiana College|location=[[Pineville, Louisiana]]|accessdate=September 24, 2017}}</ref> In 2003, Coach Munyan was inducted posthumously into the Louisiana High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lhsaa.org/affiliations/hall-of-fame/979|title=Hall of Fame Inductees|date=2003|publisher=Louisiana High School Athletic Association|accessdate=September 24, 2017}}</ref>From 1975 to 1979, Keith Munyan played football under his father's coaching as well as basketball and baseball.
Munyan's mother, the former Lucille Carter (1931-2013), a native of Hattiesburg, [[Mississippi]], served on the Mangham Town Council, was active in the [[United Methodist]] Church, and retired from the federal agency, the Farmers Home Administration office in Mangham. Munyan has two sisters, both of whom are veteran [[educator]]s, Toby M. Butler (born 1955) and husband Michael Kent Butler (born 1954) of Mangham and Debbie M. Price (born 1957) and husband George Allen Price, Jr. (born 1956), of Winnsboro in nearby Franklin Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Munyan&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=2013&GSdyrel=in&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=111137727&df=all&|title=Lucille Carter Munyan obituary|publisher=Old.findagrave.com|accessdate=March 18, 2018}}</ref>
After high school, Munyan attended the University of Louisiana at [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]] (then Northeast Louisiana University) but did not graduate. He instead became a decorator for a department store in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]], prior to launching his modeling career, which entailed travel, including a trip as far away as [[Barcelona]], [[Spain]].<ref name=kpeoples/>
==Self-educated photographer==
Munyan is a self-educated photographer. His experience as a model helped him to make the transition because while he was being photographed over the years, he "listened a lot regarding lighting and shooting. I found it easier for me because I enjoyed working with people." Munyan described patience as "the key to photography. Don't rush." He indicated that he is innovative and will "try anything, because I'm not always right. . . . "<ref name=kpeoples/>
Munyan once photographed Beth Broderick, who played the character Aunt Zelda on [[ABC]]'s ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch''. The program used all of his photographs, and the assignment led to new clients: Hilary Duff, Jessica Simpson, Cindy Crawford, Carmen Electra, Kelly Clarkson, Billy Dee Williams, and Rachel Melvin of [[NBC]]'s ''Days of Our Lives'' soap opera. In photographs of Melvin for ''Agenda'' magazine, Munyan used dead [[yucca]] trees that he had procured from his own property. Often he finds that various kinds of wood enhance the photographs.<ref name=kpeoples/>
Munyan describes proper lighting as the key to good photographs: "I've learned how to adjust my lighting around my clients. I figure out how to make it hotter, warmer, darker, depending on their skin tones, their hair, their makeup. . . . "<ref name=kpeoples/>
===Celebrity clients===
Kelly Clarkson was photographed in 2004 as the first ever winner in the ''American Idol'' program on Fox Television.<ref>http://popdirt.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=34982</ref>Another Munyan client is Mackenzie Rosman, who as a child star played Ruthie Camden on the former ''7th Heaven'' television series broadcast by [[Warner Bros. Entertainment]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forums.superiorpics.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=3&Number=1120238&Searchpage=1&Main=1120238&Words=+mwahokie&topic=&Search=true|title=|publisher=Forums.superiorpics.com|accessdate=March 18, 2018}}</ref>
Munyan said that in working with celebrities, he asks them to think of the people that they love or about their pets. He said that most celebrities are pleasant to photograph, but occasionally there are clock-watchers eager to be elsewhere. He recalled an unnamed model who posed for the trade publication ''Sophisticated Hair'' became so impatient that she threatened to walk out of the photo shoot. Munyan had to convince her to remain patient because she needed excellent photographs for the magazine.<ref name=kpeoples/>
Munyan has also photographed male models, including a photo shoot in book form called ''Hard, Solid, and Rare'''.<ref>||cite web|url=http://www.bookfinder.com/dir/i/Hard,_Solid_and_Rare/1892465272/|title=Hard, Solid and Rare|author=Keith Munyan|publisher=Bookfinder.com|accessdate=March 18, 2018}}</ref>
==Stormy Daniels v. Donald Trump==
Early in 2018, Munyan emerged one of four witnesses regarding allegations advanced by pornographic actress Stormy Daniels, who claims she had a sexual relationship with [[U.S. President]] [[Donald Trump]] from 2006 to 2007 and was paid $130,000 to keep the matter private. Munyan said that he listened to at least seven telephone conversations between Daniels and Trump which involved the offer of a condominium in [[Florida]] and an appearance on Trump's former television series, ''The Apprentice.'' "That man [Trump] can talk about nothing for hours," Munyan said.<ref name=sdaniels>{{cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/14/politics/stormy-daniels-friend-keith-munyan/index.html|title=Stormy Daniels' friend [Keith Munyan]: 'Trump would call all the time' during affair|publisher=[[CNN]]|date=March 14, 2018|author=Sara Sidner|accessdate=March 18, 2018}}</ref>
Munyan said that his connection to Daniels developed because both are Louisiana born, she in [[Baton Rouge]], and both enjoy [[horse]]s.<ref name=sdaniels/> Daniels is recognized as a nationally-ranked equestrian.<ref name=dailybeast/>
Munyan, a [[homosexual]], said that Daniels, who is estranged from her parents, considers both he and his partner, John Dean Baralle (born October 29, 1960), to be "my dads."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/03/stormy-daniels-gay-daddy-listened-calls-trump-details-sad/|title=Stormy Daniels' gay 'daddy' listened in on her calls with Trump. The details are sad.|author=Jeff Taylor|date=March 15, 2018|publisher=LGBTQnation.com|accessdate=March 18, 2018}}</ref> Barelle donated to the [[Hillary Clinton]] campaign in 2016 and has expressed continued anti-Trump comments on the Internet.<ref name=dailybeast>{{cite web|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-four-people-who-know-what-stormy-daniels-has-on-trump|title=The Four People Who Know What Stormy Daniels Has on Trump|publisher=''The Daily Beast''|date=March 9, 2018|author=Kate Briquelet|accessdate=March 18, 2018}}</ref>
In [[Facebook]] and [[Instagram]] posts in 2017, Munyan offered thanks to:
<blockquote>
[[transgender]]ed people serving bravely in our military" and to the "trans community in general for showing the world the true strength, perseverance, and resilience a human being can possess. Our president is an absolute moron and he will go down in history as such. . . . I love each and every one of my trans friends.<ref name=dailybeast/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/keith.munyan|title=Keith O. Munyan|publisher=[[Facebook]]|date=July 27, 2017|accessdate=March 18, 2018}}</ref></blockquote>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Munyan, Jr., Keith}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:California]]
[[Category:Photographers]]
[[Category:Homosexuals]]
[[Category:Liberals]]