Post by simonsbanginbabe on Sept 12, 2005 21:41:31 GMT -5
sept 12 2005
www.duranduran.com (go to site to check out pics)
Duran Duran Unseen – The Photography of Paul Edmond 1979-1982
Duran Duran Unseen – The Photography of Paul Edmond 1979-1982
written and designed by Kasper de Graaf & Malcolm Garrett
Nick Rhodes: “Better than anyone else from that period, Paul captured those very early moments, the inception of the band, whilst we were stumbling around trying to find what our identity was going to be.”
Duran Duran Unseen features a rare and extensive collection of photographs by Paul Edmond that captures the essence of the post-punk glamour scene in the industrial English city of Birmingham in the early 1980s – including the rise of one of its most successful global exports, Duran Duran.
In 1980 Paul Edmond was a young, up-and-coming photographer who, besides the members of Duran Duran, was friendly with the leading participants in the Birmingham music and style explosion, all of whom feature in this book: Patti Belle and Jane Kahn, whose Kahn & Belle fashion label typified post-punk glamour; Jon Mulligan, founder of the band Fashion which greatly influenced John Taylor and Nick Rhodes; Jane Farrimond and Martin Degville who created the fashion label YaYa and later made their mark with Sigue Sigue Sputnik; and the brothers Paul and Michael Berrow, owners of the Rum Runner nightclub who became Duran Duran’s first managers.
These pictures of Duran Duran and their friends were taken between 1979 and 1982, starting before the band released their first single Planet Earth (in March 1981) and during their earliest taste of fame.
Kasper de Graaf: “The appeal of Paul Edmond’s pictures is not just that most of them are hitherto Unseen, but that they capture Duran Duran as part of the scene from which they emerged; not just Unseen, but Unvarnished, Uncensored and, as yet, Unstyled.”
Paul Edmond’s distinctive style is best described as glamour reportage, with an uncanny ability for catching the moment, delving just below the image his subjects are trying to project, without losing the magic. His pictures are both immediate and unmistakeably of their period, sometimes funny and often poignant.
Many of the pictures in 1981 and 1982 were taken for New Sounds New Styles, the music-art-and-fashion magazine edited by Kasper de Graaf and designed by Malcolm Garrett – the creative team who went on to produce all of Duran Duran’s record sleeves, books, merchandise and print design from 1981 until the split (temporary, as it turned out) of the classic line-up in 1985 – and who have also produced this book.
John Taylor: “The nice thing about these is that we're just so raw. With these we never had photo approval, we never saw polaroids. If you'd shown us polaroids we'd all have freaked out and none of it would have happened.”
Published 5 November 2005 by Reynolds & Hearn Ltd in association with Assorted Images Books, ISBN 1-903111-91-9, U.K. Price £14.95.
Pictures courtesy of Paul Edmond. May not be used without permission from Publisher
[posted 9/12/2005 U.S.A
www.duranduran.com (go to site to check out pics)
Duran Duran Unseen – The Photography of Paul Edmond 1979-1982
Duran Duran Unseen – The Photography of Paul Edmond 1979-1982
written and designed by Kasper de Graaf & Malcolm Garrett
Nick Rhodes: “Better than anyone else from that period, Paul captured those very early moments, the inception of the band, whilst we were stumbling around trying to find what our identity was going to be.”
Duran Duran Unseen features a rare and extensive collection of photographs by Paul Edmond that captures the essence of the post-punk glamour scene in the industrial English city of Birmingham in the early 1980s – including the rise of one of its most successful global exports, Duran Duran.
In 1980 Paul Edmond was a young, up-and-coming photographer who, besides the members of Duran Duran, was friendly with the leading participants in the Birmingham music and style explosion, all of whom feature in this book: Patti Belle and Jane Kahn, whose Kahn & Belle fashion label typified post-punk glamour; Jon Mulligan, founder of the band Fashion which greatly influenced John Taylor and Nick Rhodes; Jane Farrimond and Martin Degville who created the fashion label YaYa and later made their mark with Sigue Sigue Sputnik; and the brothers Paul and Michael Berrow, owners of the Rum Runner nightclub who became Duran Duran’s first managers.
These pictures of Duran Duran and their friends were taken between 1979 and 1982, starting before the band released their first single Planet Earth (in March 1981) and during their earliest taste of fame.
Kasper de Graaf: “The appeal of Paul Edmond’s pictures is not just that most of them are hitherto Unseen, but that they capture Duran Duran as part of the scene from which they emerged; not just Unseen, but Unvarnished, Uncensored and, as yet, Unstyled.”
Paul Edmond’s distinctive style is best described as glamour reportage, with an uncanny ability for catching the moment, delving just below the image his subjects are trying to project, without losing the magic. His pictures are both immediate and unmistakeably of their period, sometimes funny and often poignant.
Many of the pictures in 1981 and 1982 were taken for New Sounds New Styles, the music-art-and-fashion magazine edited by Kasper de Graaf and designed by Malcolm Garrett – the creative team who went on to produce all of Duran Duran’s record sleeves, books, merchandise and print design from 1981 until the split (temporary, as it turned out) of the classic line-up in 1985 – and who have also produced this book.
John Taylor: “The nice thing about these is that we're just so raw. With these we never had photo approval, we never saw polaroids. If you'd shown us polaroids we'd all have freaked out and none of it would have happened.”
Published 5 November 2005 by Reynolds & Hearn Ltd in association with Assorted Images Books, ISBN 1-903111-91-9, U.K. Price £14.95.
Pictures courtesy of Paul Edmond. May not be used without permission from Publisher
[posted 9/12/2005 U.S.A
