Looking at image after image raises this question: is it possible to take a bad picture of Debbie Ha
Looking at image after image raises this question: is it possible to take a bad picture of Debbie Harry? “Yeah…” shrugs Stein, without conviction. “I mean stuff where the flash would be out of sync or something. But if I was taking photos of her… she always comes off pretty well.” That includes one shot of her bungee jumping topless, aged 45.“I would have gone stark raving naked,” she says, “but I was up there on the top of the thing and I had the clamps already on my ankles so I couldn’t get my shorts over them. I was so disappointed. Because I figured if I was going to die, I should go back out the way that I came – naked. It was great. It was titillating, you know? It was…” she gives a happy little shiver.Stein has no favourite picture of Harry. As with the band’s songs, “they’re all like movements in a larger piece. That’s how I think about it”.Harry herself sees them as distinct from anyone else’s pictures of her.“I definitely do not have that kind of intimacy with any other photographer,” she says, “and when I look at the pictures that he shot I can see the difference in my eyes.”And what is that difference?“Love!” she says, and lets out a surprisingly twinkling laugh. “Pretty simple.” Debbie Harry by Chris Stein, New Zealand 1990 [x] -- source link
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