![]() Photographers would spend hours working with their print experts in the darkroom that relationship was sacred. ![]() The real artistry happened in the editing suite with photographers and art directors making initial selections from contact sheets and working with specialist printers and retouchers to achieve exceptional quality images that have a real depth and nuance. ![]() One of my favorite shoots with him is the campaign we shot for Valentino in which I play Sylvia, the character in La Dolce Vita, shot on the streets of Rome.Ĭamera equipment was also much more costly and cumbersome back then and would include tripods, multiple lenses, and filters. Arthur Elgort loved to combine an element of reportage in a fashion shoot. As a model, you had to be patient, holding and interpreting a pose repeatedly, but also remain open to happenstance, like changes in natural light or chance encounters on location. ![]() In regard to the fashion shoot proper, working with film meant that photographers had to be precise in their preparations and compositions, and be decisive. ![]()
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She returned to college in the mid-sixties, where she graduated from Hardin-Simmons University in Texas with a Bachelor of Arts. Bradley first attended New York State College for Teachers from which she dropped out after two years. She was born on a farm in Albany, New York, during the Great Depression, to a father who was a carpenter and farmer and a mother who was a historian. Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series, often writing with a feminist outlook and even, under a pen name, gay and lesbian titles. Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (1984) ![]() |