CORY: Last year Scalo published a book of your photographs, called Go Sees. A "go-see" is when an unknown model "goes" around to "see" a photographer in hopes of getting hired.
JUERGEN: When you're a well-known fashion photographer, modeling agencies call constantly. They'll say, "This great girl is in town for three days. She's excellent, she's exciting. You've got to see her." And normally the agencies would assume, "He's this kind of photographer, so we'll send that type of girl." But I wanted to see the whole range. The agencies were calling me up more and more, and it started to get a bit annoying and weird. So I decided to really have a look at them. I opened up my studio and said, "Send anyone."
CORY: There must have been so many.
JUERGEN: The girls would bring their portfolios and their model cards, but once they left I couldn't remember what they really looked like. So I began to put a photograph of each model on a wall of my studio, just as a memory device. I showed the wall to my friend Peter Miles, and we thought maybe this could be a project, to photograph them over a whole year and see what happened. And I became quite addicted to the whole thing. I was curious to see how many girls would come. I couldn't believe that there really were so many around!
CORY: From all over the world …
JUERGEN: And I found them all attractive, they were all interesting. Everybody had a little story to tell. I'd give them a cup of coffee or tea and I'd look at their portfolios. At the end, they'd usually show me a picture of their boyfriend, or their cat, or their family, which was more interesting to look at. Like one girl grew up in the circus. Then I'd ask them if I could do a picture at the door. And they would run over and position themselves without my doing much. The process got more and more interesting — how long could I make engaging pictures in this little space? I thought I would get completely bored, but every person brought something with them.「Index magazine」記事より抜粋➤➤indexmagazine.com |
