Online blog of acclaimed fashion , celebrity & Ads photographer Clive Arrowsmith
Marc’s genius is his painstaking attention to detail, using scale and materials to produce radical and stunning forms. He draws on classical art in a very imaginative way, his blood head self portrait for example reminded me of the death masks of old which were also cast directly from the body.
Kansai Yamamoto is that rare thing, a complete artist. His work covers design and so much more, it’s about fashion, … More
In 1966 I was commissioned to do some illustrations on the set of Kubrick’s 2001. This was an extraordinary … More
Tom Reynolds art director of the Sunday Times Magazine called me and said “Clive would you like to go to … More
While expounding what I though was a particularly important creative point there was an almighty crash of breaking glass and splintering wood from outside the room.
When I photographed Ashanti for the Next Big Thing for The Sunday Times in 2003 I was trying to create … More
Once we arrived at the Baths I had my assistants set up a flash unit, suspended over the Roman Bath on a boom. This would not have got past health and safety today and I was really nervous incase the boom failed, fell into the water and electrocuted Peter and myself.
My agent Julian Cotton in the late 90s was, like me a huge classical music fan. He phoned late one … More
So excited that this exhibition is happening in Salford it’s taken a long time for the images to come to … More
