David Bailey הוא צלם אופנה, אבל לא רק. הוא התחיל בקריירה הארוכה שלו בשנות השישים של המאה שעברה בצילום סלבריטאים ומהר מאד הפך לסלבריטי בעצמו. בגיל 74 הוא עדיין אותו נון-קונפורמיסט דוקרני. מחזיק בדעות מוצקות, לא מקובלות. מנבל את פיו בכל משפט שני. הגיל והניסיון רק עושים אותו מעניין יותר.
הנה כמה פנינים מראיון שפורסם ב-The Telegraph:
Q: Do you think your influences had an effect on you visually? On how you, in practical terms, framed a shot or thought of a shot?A: You know, I don’t think things like that count really. I’ve never understood all that nonsense about composition and framing, it’s all b-------.Q: So what isn’t b-------?A: Just seeing the way you see. I mean I never do anything with my pictures. They’ve never changed. They’re exactly the same as the way they were when I was 17 or something.Q: So what would your advice be to somebody who wanted to start in photography?A: You can’t do it unless you can do it. I knew how to take pictures before I knew what a camera was.Q: All the stuff about getting the aperture right and the exposure –A: All that s--- is just technical s--- that anyone can do...
Q: Are photographs less powerful now because there are so many of them in the world?
A: No, it makes the good ones even more powerful because it hasn’t taken away the good ones. The good ones are still there. Digital and Photoshop just moved mediocrity up a stop, that’s all. They’re still mediocre – they just look better.
הראיון ארוך, אבל קל לקריאה ומהנה. מומלץ.Q: ...When you take someone like John Deakin. He’s taking a picture with a machine and yet, when I look at his pictures, I always know that it’s a John Deakin. And that to me is deeply mysterious. I was hoping you could explain it to me.A: No I can’t. It’s not because I won’t. I can’t. That’s why I can’t teach anyone, and that’s why I’m not a big education man. I think they’re a bunch of f------ parrots all learning the same thing.
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| David Bailey, Mick Jagger, 1964 |
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