Apart from a recent shoot for Harper’s Bazaar, I have battened down the hatches to concentrate on the completion of my new book. A liberal interpretation of the editing theme ‘fashion’, it will chronicle almost five decades of photography exploring fashion and fashion related ideas. My son and grandson have been roped in to help accelerate production. So, there are three generations of Haskins men sitting at the long desk in my office churning through a mountain of archival material and putting in long hours of retouching in Photoshop.
We intend to release teaser images regularly over the coming months. Publication is planned for late summer/fall 2008. We don’t have a title yet but the blog will be the first to know when we do.
Here is an image from my blue series shot in the early 80s in London…
…and here is the model used in the shot – the wine bottle is of course to indicate scale. The image is an in-camera montage – the model in the hat was produced as a black and white print photographed onto a colour transparency with my Pentax 67 and physically sandwiched onto the shot of the arches.
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