tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post4127841479066060029..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: Reflections on a Photo Shoot: Part 1Katherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-18813769251514531902014-01-28T15:35:22.531+00:002014-01-28T15:35:22.531+00:00My prospective German publishers wanted a photo of...My prospective German publishers wanted a photo of me. They sent me to meet a man at Euston Station. We sat in the coffee shop there and talked about where to take the pic. It all seemed very low-key. Happy Snappie almost. Definitely the photographer didn't want to do studio type pics. To illustrate what he was after, he pulled a bunch of photos out of a rather tatty looking bag. One was a Bruce Chatwin that I'd seen in the press and a number of books. Then there was Jack Kerouac with a cat. Have you seen that one? It's always popping up, so's the Samuel Becket one ['we shot that in an alley round the corner from here']. Other too. Edna O'Brien, Muriel Spark - oh, I can't remember the others, but It turned out this unassuming man I was drinking coffee with had spent his long career travelling the world to photograph authors. In fact he'd photographed most of them, he said. Who hadn't he photographed, I asked. The answer came back straight away, with regret. 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez.' <br /><br /> If I've ever doubted that I was a 'proper writer', I definitely didn't doubt it that day. The photographer's name is Jerry Bauer, by the way. The German translation of Sabrina Fludde never came out, but I still sometimes use the photograph [even though, ten years later, it's a bit out of date]!Pauline Fiskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11826696982301252524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-41230455862929058032014-01-13T15:46:21.233+00:002014-01-13T15:46:21.233+00:00Other famous photos/pictures that come to mind: Su...Other famous photos/pictures that come to mind: Sue Grafton's brilliant cute-as-a-button first photos...Janet Evanovich's equally savvy use of the camera...ebook thriller titan Claude Bouchard's avuncular photos, used to offset his cruel, bloody books...and the steel engraving of Walt Whitman in a slouch hat, hand on hip, posing as 'one of the roughs'. glitter noirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11728649916344336118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-12189232824515026002014-01-12T18:23:52.806+00:002014-01-12T18:23:52.806+00:00Mad, I agree that photos are a gamble and often di...Mad, I agree that photos are a gamble and often disllusioning. But I don't think physical beauty (Donna Tartt aside) has much to do with the subject. The photos that catch my eye have a something-about-them-ness that catches our attention. I might have added a photo of Kurt Vonnegut, for example. Anyway, that was my goal in my shoot. And time will tell if we succeeded.glitter noirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11728649916344336118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-40662218666657201162014-01-12T18:13:29.890+00:002014-01-12T18:13:29.890+00:00Ah, Julia. I should've listed the names! Hemin...Ah, Julia. I should've listed the names! Hemingway, Yukio Mishima, Tom Wolfe, Donna Tartt and Lawrence Sanders. Sorry for not listing.glitter noirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11728649916344336118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-5353350580888720372014-01-12T17:18:09.319+00:002014-01-12T17:18:09.319+00:00Hey Reb - is there a prize for knowing who's w...Hey Reb - is there a prize for knowing who's who in those photos. Because if there is I'm not going to win it ...julia joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09773900100240758504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-41124970810771852382014-01-12T07:49:54.452+00:002014-01-12T07:49:54.452+00:00Hum .... nowadays of course, there is always the s...Hum .... nowadays of course, there is always the selfie ... ;-)<br /><br /><br />I'm in two minds about author pics. While a part of me wants to see a picture of them, another part invariably goes 'What? They look like that?! That's not what I imagined them to look like!' It can be disillusioning ...madwippitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.com