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Photography by the late Robyn Beeche (in collaboration with makeup artists Richard Sharah, Phyllis Cohen and Richard Sharples).
One of the true "Shapers of the 80s", she frequented Steve Strange's Blitz Club and worked with just about everyone who was anyone in that era, including Divine, Andrew Logan, Scarlett, Leigh Bowery, Stephen Jones, Mary Quant and Zandra Rhodes.
For more, read the article Robyn Beeche, Before Photoshop over at the A.G. Nauta Couture blog.
Darling Jon,
ReplyDeleteThis is a most captivating image. I felt sure that it was a painting, but how clever it is that the photographer has captured that essence in a photograph.
We read the obituary with much interest as we had been unaware of Robyn Beeche previously. Clearly, such great talent with a highly original creative eye. Wonderful!
She was renowned for the uncanny ability she had, with the creative team she had around her, of making living models in her photographs look as if they were paintings - and hit the zeitgeist in an era when such elaborate make-up and clothing was embraced by the New Romantics and other eccentrics as a reaction to the grimness of the social and economic situation at the time. Her work came to typify the early 80s! Jx
DeleteThank you for acknowledging her. So many artists get lost in the shuffle of names. These photos and the work that created them... stunning. What a committed vision. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteWith such stunning imagery, how could I not? Jx
DeleteVisage, Visage.
ReplyDeleteFabulous works of art.
I've always been impressed by these "looks" - it's good to discover who was behind them! Jx
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