Sometimes we’re too eager to press the shutter and take the picture straight away without realising that it is a silent image. Its voice speaks through the final photograph.
Category: Beauty
The Vanishing Sunset of Boulevard at LAX (80s USA)
We went up to his hotel room to look at the clothes. Where Michael had arranged them all over the place and set up an ironing board. As we talked he continued to iron clothes. I said “Michael don’t you want to get someone else to do that?” He smiled at me and said, “No Clive, I find it very therapeutic actually.” and ironed on.
Raquel Welch “Clive, you are supposed to tell me I look beautiful” (90s)
As the shoot was taking some time I knocked on the door and was called into the dressing room by Raquel who was in front of the mirror doing her eyelashes in a rather tiny bra and pants looking like the Goddess she is. As my regular readers will know I am rarely lost for words and could feel myself getting all hot and bothered and looking at my feet and shifting my weight from one leg to the next.
Harpers, The Mask of Horus, The Clapps and Jocelyn Stevens on Paradise Island
Willy also asked me to come up with a concept. I had been reading a lot about Egyptian mythology and was particularly fascinated by the falcon headed Egyptian God Horus . This fascination had begun after reading the Egyptian Book Of The Dead and taking acid with my assistant (affectionately known as The Wasp) at a friend’s manor house in the country, where I saw a vision of Horus.
Spaghetti, Harpers & Vivienne Lynn
I first met the Spaghetti people the divine Nadia and Suomi La Valle in 1979, at that moment I was … More
The America Issue – For British Vogue with Part 2 (Pennsylvania – Waiting for The Amish 1973 )
The scene reminded me of an Andrew Wythe painting that I had always adored and had influenced me so much in my own painting and into photography. I felt the extraordinary poetic beauty of the synchronicity of being in the same landscape he had viewed and which had inspired him and now inspired me.
Kirsten Scott Thomas – Star of The English Patient
I shot Kirsten in the late 90s when she was promoting her fantastic BAFTA nominated performance in the English Patient which was an eery, moving and unsettling film. Most particularly because she was left in the desert alone with nothing but a book of classical Greek poetry.
Kansai Yamamoto – More Photos from Hello Japan 2013 -An Awe Inspiring Super Show
Kansai Yamamoto is that rare thing, a complete artist. His work covers design and so much more, it’s about fashion, … More
The Legendary Jean Shrimpton (1971)
I could never recall seeing pictures of her laughing so I was hoping that it would be a fun shoot and it turned out to be great.
Geschi Fengler – The Beautiful Valkyrie
I dashed into the knee deep water and she got out of the chair and across the sodden set and flung herself at me nearly knocking us both into the fast flowing stream that now had changed into a torrent. Peter grabbed my hand and pulled Geschi and me onto the bank. While the client looked on in dismay as the set floated down stream