DAVID BOWIE Scary Monsters Long Shadow BRIAN DUFFY archive embossed official
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DAVID BOWIE Scary Monsters Long Shadow BRIAN DUFFY archive embossed official. Condition is "New". Shipped with USPS Media Mail.
See my other David Bowie listings Scary Monsters Long Shadow "So much had to be on the film, you couldn't manipulate images on the computer like you can do today. Duffy would create these amazing shoots - He saw in the camera what he saw and we didn't, we would only see the finished picture." - Sara Raeburn
Taken by Duffy during the last of the Five Sessions with David Bowie in 1980 in a costume designed by Natasha Korniloff. Bowie asked Korniloff to make him ‘The most beautiful clown in the circus.’ She described David as ‘Always a lot of fun to work with.’ David's New Romantic/Commedia dell'arte variant outfit was a throwback to his earliest costume experience, starring in Lindsay Kemp's Pierrot In Turquoise - a costume also designed by the late Natasha Kornilof.
This outfit and makeup were also worn in the 'Ashes to Ashes' music video released in 1980. Images from the shoot were featured in all three different cover versions of the 7" single.
By 1980 Duffy was winding down his photographic career. His studio was no longer filled with cameras, lights and famous faces of the era. It was replaced with tools for his new venture - antique furniture restoration. Without a studio or assistant, Duffy turned to his son Chris for a venue to shoot David Bowie, the only person who could persuade him to get back behind the lens. Bowie began to pose as the perfect pierrot, throughout the session distressing his look until he was reduced to a disheveled, smeared, smoking clown. Much like the Lodger shoot little over a year before, Bowie had employed Duffy as the photographer in collaboration with a graphic artist, a position filled this time by Edward Bell who Duffy had previously introduced to Bowie. After the shoot, Duffy took his chosen image to Edward Bell to add his graphic contribution. Fully expecting Edward Bell to paint directly onto his print, Duffy's image was almost completely obscured by Bell's painting. Although David loved the cover, Duffy was deeply hurt that his photograph had been despoiled by Bell.
Open Edition Prints Our Standard Archival Quality Pigment Ink Print is approx. 7.5?x 7.5? (19.05cm x 19.05cm) in 12?x12? (30.48cm x 30.48cm) Mounts - handmade and printed in the Duffy Archive from the original photographic negatives.
All of our images are ready to frame, supplied with a choice of either a black or white acid-free mount. A mount is a paper-based border around framed images between the frame and the image. The mount adds an extra decorative element and also prevents the image from making contact with the glass. Our Standard Size open edition prints are the same size as a 12" vinyl album sleeve for convenient framing.
As with all our prints, each open edition is embossed with the Duffy Archive stamp. The reverse of each frame has a sticker detailing the history of the session and a hand-stamped logo from Duffy's old camera cases.
Please note that the ‘notches’ in the black border of the prints are part of the original film the images have been printed from. These marks indicate which film back was loaded onto the Hasselblad camera during the session and appear on many of the square format images in the archive.
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