“They would have been fine for TIME magazine,” she said, “but if I was gonna get her into Creem magazine, I needed her giving the finger!” The first few images looked pretty, but the photographer wanted something with more attitude. They ended up throwing a black coat over the two-piece - “I thought she would be more comfortable,” Goldsmith said - and began shooting. When Apollonia arrived at a shoot ahead of her debut solo album in LA, the Prince protégée brought her own clothes, including a sexy two-piece bathing suit with a tiger-striped top and high-cut bottoms that Goldsmith loved.Īfter they snapped some photos in the studio, Goldsmith suggested going outside: “We threw a lot of clothes in the car and went to Malibu.” But it was never like that with the ‘Bs.’ Even though they’re five very different people, it was almost like shooting one entity.” Apollonia Prince protégée Apollonia wasn’t afraid to be defiant. “Generally speaking, doing pictures of five people is a nightmare,” Goldsmith said. “I knew this was, because it’s really with their clothes and hair that they become the B-52’s.” “They called it the sewing room,” Goldsmith said. Then, they got to housemate and stylist Robert Molnar’s room, with its retro wallpaper, kitschy lava lamp and scraps of colorful fabric on the floor. “It was just a normal house,” Goldsmith recalled. (She said that 90 percent of the images she produces are “on spec,” or with the hopes of selling them later - “That’s how much I have to believe in myself and the people I photograph.”) So Goldsmith traveled to the band’s new house in Nyack, NY, to photograph them on her own dime. “I went, ‘They’re gonna be huge!’” she remembered. The first time Goldsmith heard The B-52’s, the campy, cartoony New Wave quintet from Athens, Georgia, she knew she had to meet them. The B-52’s The B-52’s were shot in the sewing room of their home in Nyack, NY. Here, Goldsmith shares some of her photos and stories from the ’80s. “I shoot from the point of view of a fan,” she said. She captures these personalities at their most surprising, their most glamorous and their most true - probably because she is a musician and artist herself. “How did I sleep? Did I ever get laid in the ‘80s? And I had to leave out a lot of artists because there weren’t enough pages!” “I wondered, ‘How did I ever photograph all these people?’” said Goldsmith, who was also making her own dance music under the name Will Powers at the time. Lynn Goldsmith’s new book of photography, “Music in the ’80s,” is out now. “ Music in the ’80s” (Rizzoli) showcases the dazzling breadth of the Me Decade: The Rolling Stones to The Boss Herbie Hancock to Run DMC Madonna to Goldsmith’s old college pal Iggy Pop The Pretenders to, yes, Barry Manilow. “As I started putting it together, I thought I could do this alphabetically to show visually the range - how different Bananarama is from Barry Manilow.” “I really saw what a creative time it was,” the Detroit native said. But as she pored over her trove of images, she realized that the 1980s were actually pretty rad. When an editor suggested she excavate her old photos from the decade for a possible project, Goldsmith grudgingly started going through her negatives. “The era kicked off with the assassination of John Lennon … I think Chris Stein put it best: ‘The ’80s murdered what was left of the ’60s.’” “Most people of my age group feel that way,” the 76-year-old added. “If you mentioned that decade to me, for whatever reason, I went ‘blech!’” the legendary rock ’n’ roll photographer told The Post, contorting her face into an exaggerated grimace. Lynn Goldsmith never thought she would do a book about the 1980s. Grammys award for least sore loser: Wolf Van Halenĭavid Lee Roth cancels all Las Vegas ‘retirement’ shows due to COVID-19 Mick Jagger, Tina Turner & more who said ‘cheese’ to this photographer Valerie Bertinelli ‘so proud’ of Wolf Van Halen’s Taylor Hawkins tribute: ‘Killed it’
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