The suspended box idea was influenced by the box in Francis Bacons paintings, his tryptic of portraits of Lucien Freud (1969) (see below). The set designer and my assistants dashed of and got some chrome effect plastic tubing and cobbled it all together while the GHD Sirens were in hair and make up. I shot […]
The America Issue – For British Vogue with Part 2 (Pennsylvania – Waiting for The Amish 1973 ) – Clive Arrowsmith Photographer
This image of Anne Schaufuss in the fab hat shot in the evening light of Pennsylvania was supposed to be a cover of Vogue in 1973, but at the last minute for some reason it was pulled. I was miffed because I thought it was quite beautiful and I was never given a reason, such […]
The Mighty Quinn – Ravey Street Studio (2005) by Clive Arrowsmith – Clive Arrowsmith Photographer
I was asked to photograph the artist Marc Quinn in 2005, an artist who is sometimes considered controversial but to my mind is really innovative. I drove to his pristine Shoreditch studio. Shoreditch in those days still a very rough area of London before it became a mecca of coolness. His studio was in Ravey […]
danielbarenbiom – Clive Arrowsmith Photographer
My assistant set up the lights and I wanted it lit in such a way that his head and hands where the only thing that was illuminated with the rest of his body in darkness. Once we’d set up the lights I noticed he had very shiny patent shoes which I also lit from the […]
chopin – Clive Arrowsmith Photographer
My assistant set up the lights and I wanted it lit in such a way that his head and hands where the only thing that was illuminated with the rest of his body in darkness. Once we’d set up the lights I noticed he had very shiny patent shoes which I also lit from the […]
The Vanishing Sunset of Boulevard at LAX (80s USA) – Clive Arrowsmith Photographer
Clive Arrowsmith 1980s shoot for Boulevard Magazine styled by Michael Roberts Michael Roberts said to me one evening over dinner “Lets go to LA and do a shoot for Boulevard Magazine”. We were dining with our mutual friends Soumi and Nadia La Valle the amazing Spaghetti People. On the plane to LA, after a few […]
Portraits – Clive Arrowsmith Photographer
Even when I asked her if I could pour water over her head. She said yes and then my assistant was duly instructed to stand on a tall ladder and sprinkle water over her. Warhol was a man of few words and wielded an antique polaroid camera and insistently took polaroids which he then dropped […]
behindthescenes – Clive Arrowsmith Photographer
It was a fraught and adventurous shoot, it has to be said, I risked life and limb by hanging over the edge of the top of the spiral staircase, with assistants holding my legs and jeans belt so I didn’t come to an untimely end.
November 2019 – Clive Arrowsmith Photographer
I shot these phots on a Linhof 5×4 plate camera for Hearst Magazines – it was a story about the … More Even when I asked her if I could pour water over her head. She said yes and then my assistant was duly instructed to stand on a tall ladder and sprinkle water over […]
Wings – Clive Arrowsmith Photographer
Lovely to see this picture on the cover of the Western Mail weekend magazine. You never stop being thrilled at … More This was one of my first photographic jobs when I was still an Art Director. I had known Paul McCartney … More
Triple Exposure – Clive Arrowsmith Photographer
My assistants placed the improvised cross on my shoulders and helped me down from the top studio down to Beatrice Millers office, where she was conducting a meeting with a dignitary from the National Portrait gallery. Spurred on by tequila I burst into the office, one foot in the bucket of pink yoghurt, which splashed […]
Clive Arrowsmith Photographer – Online blog of acclaimed fashion , celebrity & Ads photographer Clive Arrowsmith
When I discovered them again between shoots, exhibitions and the whirlwind of the photography world. I realised how sensual and slightly androgynous the model is who I think is called Mona but I am not 100 percent sure. I shot these phots on a Linhof 5×4 plate camera for Hearst Magazines – it was a […]
Roman Baths – Clive Arrowsmith Photographer
Once we arrived at the Baths I had my assistants set up a flash unit, suspended over the Roman Bath on a boom. This would not have got past health and safety today and I was really nervous incase the boom failed, fell into the water and electrocuted Peter and myself.
America Issue Vogue – Clive Arrowsmith Photographer
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.