It's interesting how most successful photographers are also good filmdirectors. Maybe it proofs that photography, particular fashion etc, is more about being able to communicate directions well, not to dismiss any mutual chemistry of course.
On a not entirely unrelated note: saw a docu about George Michael where apparently the video for "Freedom" was inspired by a Peter Lindbergh photo for Vogue. He wanted all of the supermodels in that particular foto to star in the video, to lipsync where he would normally be present. It was at the beginning of his realisation that superstardom was detrimental to his own identity and being.
If i had any investigative journalistic aspirations i would try to find a link to the actual photo, but i neither know which photo to look for, nor do i have the aspirations, the latter being the more determining factor in my laziness. As the saying goes: google is your friend. I'm afraid for a lot of people that is all too true.
Have a healthy one, Rob, hope to read a lot more from you in the new year, not to mention waiting anxiously for the first entries of your bucketlistroadtripblog.
~ O ~
ps. Send Moira my best wishes as well
I think I heard that about the George M video too. I was so disappointed when I discovered he was gay that I kinda lost interest in his career beyond thinking what a bloody waste! All that hair, just as I was losing much of mine; great looks all for nothing. Sad you can't buy looks off the shelf. Knowing his inclinations made all those music videos of him interacting with girls look so hollow. I didn't give a damn about his desires, on a personal level - his choice - just that it ruined the entire music/visuals for me, and without the visuals there was only half a show. IMO. Same with Rock Hudson: I think of Gina Lollobrigida as his co-star in
Come September (also with Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin) and what a great relationship it looked on the screen, and then it, too, ends up as farce, a bad joke.
Regarding the photo that may have inspired the video: there are a couple of shots of Lindberg with Christie Turlington, Tatjana Patitz, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista: New York, 1989, British
Vogue. I don't know the date of the video in question, and not entirely sure any longer who was in it other than Linda. Of them all, given choice of one to photograph, it would be Ms Turlington I'd love to work with for a while. There's also another Lindbergh shot of some of the girls together in white shirts on a beach, but again, I can't remember the casting accurately, though it is in the latest book.
Moira is going through a phase. Sometimes she's there and again other times not. I end up carrying carrots (and an apple, a day or two ago!) on both legs of my walk which gets annoying. Temperamental females I don't need at all. I want to walk back home lighter than I began.
However, in another field, the one where I shot the "white horse anywhere" snap, there are three horses. As Moira was AWOL on the out leg of my recent walk, I assumed she'd also be absent on the return leg. So, I decided to pay the other field a visit and two horses were there. Both instantly came up to the fence and took from my hand. The first time was not a problem, because the other horse just watched, but once it saw what the other was getting, it wanted fed at the same time. That made me a bit nervous, especially when one showed its teeth: they are huge! One normal hand and two massive hungry mouths? Not a good idea. Anyway, it ended up with them picking stuff up off the ground. Yep, you guessed: when I reached
her field, there she was. Fortunately, I had saved a carrot and a bit of apple just in case, and she eat that, but she refused to come close enough to hand-feed. That is a bit of a drag, considering she had overcome her fear of fence and possibly of moi, but for some reason, she's as spooked again as ever she was.
Great 2018 to you, too, and trust me: if this place sells, that road trip happens!
;-)
Rob