Joe Hutch
Mate of the bloke
... but no oven gloves
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59010115
In 2002, music photographer Kevin Cummins was approached by a young woman after giving a talk in Manchester.
He didn't immediately recognise her, but it was Natalie Curtis - the daughter of Joy Division's late lead singer Ian.
She wanted to ask a simple question - did Cummins have any pictures of her dad smiling?
Cummins famously photographed Joy Division in the late 1970s, and his atmospheric pictures h
ave come to define the image of not just the band, but also of the post-punk music scene in industrial Manchester.
When the singer took his own life at the age of 23 in 1980, the famous black-and-white stills took on an even greater resonance. The images are now being published in Joy Division: Juvenes, an updated collection of his work with the band.
But despite Natalie's request for a memento of her dad's happier side, Cummins had purposefully given the images a sombre mood. He explains he "very rarely" took pictures that captured the band when they were all smiles.
"That wasn't the agenda. I wanted to photograph the band looking like serious young men," he says. "If they smiled on a picture, I generally didn't take it because I couldn't afford to waste any film.
"I wanted... to create an image for them that so that people would look at them and think they were perhaps a lot more cerebral than they were and to make them slightly unattainable."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59010115
In 2002, music photographer Kevin Cummins was approached by a young woman after giving a talk in Manchester.
He didn't immediately recognise her, but it was Natalie Curtis - the daughter of Joy Division's late lead singer Ian.
She wanted to ask a simple question - did Cummins have any pictures of her dad smiling?
Cummins famously photographed Joy Division in the late 1970s, and his atmospheric pictures h
ave come to define the image of not just the band, but also of the post-punk music scene in industrial Manchester.
When the singer took his own life at the age of 23 in 1980, the famous black-and-white stills took on an even greater resonance. The images are now being published in Joy Division: Juvenes, an updated collection of his work with the band.
But despite Natalie's request for a memento of her dad's happier side, Cummins had purposefully given the images a sombre mood. He explains he "very rarely" took pictures that captured the band when they were all smiles.
"That wasn't the agenda. I wanted to photograph the band looking like serious young men," he says. "If they smiled on a picture, I generally didn't take it because I couldn't afford to waste any film.
"I wanted... to create an image for them that so that people would look at them and think they were perhaps a lot more cerebral than they were and to make them slightly unattainable."
