Biba Outfit Photographed On The Sussex Downs

Thank you Shelly. It’s interesting to see how the fashions have changed. Note the riders are not wearing hard hats or helmets. That would be forbidden in this day and age.

Thank you Maximus. It was certainly a different era from a technical point of view. Never the less, like today, it was the end result that was the only thing that really counted.

You remember Biba CJ?! It was THE place for a girl to go shopping in the 60’s. Didn’t break the bank either. Cash was king and credit cards hadn’t been invented! Thanks for your comment, happy to take you to the twilight zone. :-))

Thanks Colin. Are fashion photographers as adventurous today as they were in this era? We were always in search of exciting pictures, smoke bombs, aeroplanes, trampolines in the street to get models airborne, it was a great to get out of the studio!

Thanks Maka, much of the atmosphere was early morning mist!

Quite dangerous too if I remember rightly. With this lens exaggerating distances, my instructions to the riders was “as close as possible”. They cleared by about 18 inches. Luckily the model had her back to them and was unaware of the impending peril! On this occasion my only direction was “DON’T MOVE!”

It really was a great time. In 1966 I had the privilege of witnessing the making of Blow_Up the cult Antonioni film about a photographer who inadvertently photographs a murder. It was filmed at John Cowan’s studio during my last year there as his assistant.

Yep. Saw that one in Milan. My anarchistic Italian girlfriend at the time loved the blowing up of all that consumer crap!

Thank you Etienne. There was no Photoshop in those days so we had to live dangerously!

Thank you 3X. This was one pose and stick to it. Those horses were very close so I told the model who was blissfully unaware of the danger “Don’t MOVE!”

Thanks Matt, it reminds me of younger days, career beginnings and slow motor drives!