Perry Ogden

Love Hate

29 Apr 13
Love Hate

Back in Dublin. Working on a project for hit Irish tv drama Love Hate. On set again today. Here's Nidge - the main man - played by Tom Vaughan-Lawlor.

Bill Brandt at MOMA

26 Apr 13
Bill Brandt at MOMA

Just back from seeing the Bill Brandt show at MOMA. Beautiful prints. Many he treated with black washes to create dense shadows. Have always loved this portrait of Francis Bacon on Primrose Hill. Brandt said: "snapshots show only the likeness of a certain moment and are never good portraits. The photographer has to wait until something between dreaming and action occurs in the expression of a face".

'Street' at The Met, NY

23 Apr 13
'Street' at The Met, NY

Shooting in NY this week and got a chance to visit The Met today to see James Nares' beautiful and mesmerising film 'Street'. James Nares says of the film, "My intention was to give the dreamlike impression of floating through a city full of people frozen in time, caught Pompeii-like, at a particular moment of thought, expression, or activity... a film to be viewed 100 years from now". As I was leaving a young boy turned to his mother and, pointing to the screen, asked, "What's that?" to which she replied, "Oh, that's just people walking".

http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2013/street

Norman Parkinson

21 Apr 13
Norman Parkinson

Today is the 100th anniversay of the birth of Norman Parkinson aka Parks. I met Parks at Trinidad Carnival in 1988. We were both staying in the Queens Park Hotel overlooking the Savvanah in Port of Spain - a wonderful run down old world hotel that is sadly no longer. I had seen him and his wife Wenda there in previous years but never actually met them. By the time I met him in 1988 his wife had died. Parks invited us to visit him at his house in Tobago but we never made it over. I did get to see - and photograoph - the house some years later, long after Parks had died. A magical place in the most amazing location. Will try to dig out some pictures. Meantime, I've always loved this picture he made in the Seychelles for British Vogue circa 1971 and styled by Grace Coddington.

Paddy "Red" Lydon

12 Apr 13
Paddy "Red" Lydon

Sad to read in today's Irish Times that Paddy "Red" Lydon, the red-haired boy in the famous John Hinde postcard of two children collecting turf in Connemara, has died aged 65. The girl in the picture was his sister Mary. They were paid "half a crown" for their participation. Iconic image. John Hinde was way ahead of his time.

Chris Killip

06 Apr 13
Chris Killip

Great to see Chris Killip nominated for the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize for his show at Le Bal in Paris last year. Many of these pictures appeared in his book 'In Flagrante'. Others I am seeing here for the first time. The spread above is from today's Telegraph magazine. The main picture is of a North Shields housing estate, May 5th 1981. Note the "SMASH IRA" and " BOBBY SANDS GREEDY IRISH PIG" graffiti.

David Bailey (pt 2)

06 Apr 13
David Bailey (pt 2)

Here's the rest of the interview with Bailey plus some of the ads we managed to get. The magazine was very much inspired by Andy Warhol's 'Interview' (yes, photographed and interviewed him for the magazine too) and Bailey and David Litchfield's 'Ritz Newspaper'.

David Bailey

05 Apr 13
David Bailey

I went to interview and photograph Bailey for the magazine. I had already discovered 'Goodbye Baby & Amen' and 'Box of Pin Ups' and was a big fan. Not sure Bailey was too impressed with me and my Olympus camera. He got his assistant to stick up a light for the photo. But he did say, "Perry Ogden, that's a good name for a photographer". 

Lipstick

04 Apr 13
Lipstick

See today's newsletter from IDEA Books on the one off magazine 'Lipstick' I produced with my friend and co-editor Rory Phillips in our last year at Eton!

http://tinyurl.com/cjx45u9

 

Sybil and Puma

03 Apr 13
Sybil and Puma

Just back to find copies of D La Repubblica with LA families story. Love this pic of Sybil Buck and her daughter Puma.