![]() This moment in the early 1990s seems to have been a perfect time for him, and perhaps that goes some way to explaining his prodigious work rate. As he says, “What you really see in these portraits is me.” And as we pass them by, we circle back to this idea of transformation several times to the notion that these extraordinary images are the summation of everything that Steven has learnt. The show features more than a hundred portraits of women and men from the worlds of fashion and film. In front of Steven’s lens, Marlon seems to have been transported to a perfect rock star parallel universe. I see things in them that they might not see.” His image of Marlon, Keith Richards’s son, is a good example. “I think I’m good with picking people, discovering people, whatever the word might be, whether or not they are a model. The exhibition comprises a sequence of portraits, adds Steven: “This cast of amazing characters who I found really inspiring, really beautiful, really cool,” he says. The work just comes, instinctively, organically, you know, I’ve been seeing all these visions since I was a little kid.” I remember him saying, ‘OK, do this job and do that job,’ and I just went to work. I was shocked when my agent showed me just how much I had done that year. “I don’t sit and look back at my work unless I’m forced to. He seems genuinely surprised by the scale of all this. Over the next 12 months, he will shoot 28 Vogue covers together with more than a hundred editorial stories, including the iconic “Anglo-Saxon Attitude” in the December issue of British Vogue. Bill Clinton is in the White House, Nirvana are blazing across the US, Prince has become a symbol, and Steven Meisel – fresh from his completion of Sex, his brilliant collaboration with Madonna – is set to embark on a blitz of creativity. Yet, thanks to a clever synthesis of technology, we spend an hour together, back in 1993. Steven, one of the world’s most prominent photographers and, as such, impossible to pin down, is some 4,000 miles away in his studio in New York City, and I’m in France. Steven has agreed to walk me through the show.Įxcept, of course, this is all in my imagination and we do no such thing. ![]() In November, a rare exhibition of his work, Steven Meisel 1993 A Year in Photographs, will open at the beautiful space that Elsa Urquijo designed for the MOP Foundation chair of Inditex Marta Ortega Pérez’s initiative to bring cutting-edge exhibitions to A Coruña. It’s a balmy August evening when I meet Steven Meisel on the dockside in A Coruña, a port city in the Galicia region of northwest Spain. ![]()
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