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Carly Simon photographed by Norman Seef for the album Playing Possum, 1974
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Carly Simon photographed by Norman Seef for the album Playing Possum, 1974
Diane Keaton by Norman Seef
Today I acquired 2 original 35mm print slides from a guy who worked for Bill Aucoin and Casablanca Records back in the 1970s. To my knowledge they have never been seen before. One is from the famed “White Room Session” June 4, 1975 with Norman Seef, who was the photographer who shot the cover of Hotter Than Hell. The other one of Ace is from the equally famous session in New York City on January 25, 1974 by photographer Raeanne Rubenstein. This was the red background shoot that Peter brought a knife to and Paul wore the bandit makeup. I really enjoy finding stuff like this and being able to share it with you. I hope you appreciate these images as much as I do.
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Patti Smith, photographiée par Norman Seef, New York, 1969
Norman Seeff was assigned to shoot liner-note art for The Band's "Stage Fright" album in 1969. Seeff arrived to the shoot late and took photos for only one hour.
📸Norman Seef, 1969 Woodstock, NY (for “Stage Fright” album 1970)
It’s a testmant to the timelessness of The Band’s style and the photographer’s vision that this picture could easily as be a publicity shot in 2019 as it was in 1969.
From a Seef interview with VICE in 2013:
N.S.: [Noted Graphic Designer] Bob Cato gave me my first gig shooting The Band. When I first heard, I thought to myself "The Band? Who's the band?" He's talking to this guy called Robbie Robertson and says, "I want you to go up to Woodstock and shoot them; you'll do the liner notes."
So a couple of weeks later I borrow a car- I've never driven in America before- and I borrow a strobe, and spend my money for six rolls of film. I set off to upstate New York, being used to driving on the opposite side of the road. I was three hours late and Robbie was furious, and the rest of the band was really pissed off too. I was incredibly embarrassed to start out my first shoot; I've never worked with a band before, of any stature. Garth [Hudson], the big guy, was just sitting in this big barn, tinkling at the piano, and no one else was talking to me. So I quickly rearranged the furniture and got everyone in and did the shoot in an hour because I ran out of film. So I do this very fast shoot, they don't really even talk to me and I don't have a nice time, and I remember driving back really asking myself, "What the hell have I done with my life? This is not even fun, it's a waste of time, and you're in self delusion. Who the fuck do you think you are?"
I develop the film and I don't like anything. Then there's one image that I think, "Okay, maybe I can work with it", and so I spend a week on it in the dark room. I was living on the upper west side on the 70's and I remember walking, because I had no money, all the way downtown to the east 30's. When I got to Bob's studio, I'm too embarrassed so I pushed the picture in an envelope under the door. Then I go home and I don't hear anything. Two or three days pass, no call. A week. Ten days. I'm saying to my friends, "I've really blown it", but they convince me to call him.
"Where the fuck have you been?! I don't have your phone number and I couldn't reach you! By the way, I just want you to know, Robbie Robertson loves your picture so much we've decided not to use my stuff, we're going to use yours for the cover." Then Bob says, "I've got this great idea. I'm not even going to print it on the cover, I'm going to print it as a poster so when people buy the album and pull off the shrink wrap, what comes out is this poster which you can unfold." Within a few days of the album getting released, every bar I go to, there's my picture. The album turned out to be a hit album, it was The Band's Stagefright. Suddenly I'm getting phone calls from art directors- "Um, do you have time to come in and see us? We really love your work." I'm getting phone calls, I'm getting shoots, and my life has changed.
Robert Maplethorpe and Patti Smith by Norman Seeff.
© Norman Seef [*] John Belushi - L.A. (1981)
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Cher fotografata da Norman Seeff (1976)
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