Some more colour contact sheets from this guy:
When that YouTube clip hit the Frink last summer I posted these memories of 'cowboymod' ~
" I thinks I remember this guy. Back in about 2004 he posted alot of these shots on his website, and the story behind them, which was basically that Moz was recording 'Quarry' at Hook End near Reading and 'his people' (wouldn't you just love to have 'people'?) called up this guy out of the blue (Yellow Pages?) and arranged for Morrissey to come in to his studio in Oxford. This was in the autumn of 2003. He was never told what they were to be used for or when they would be used. But this guy put up a couple of dozen shots after 'Quarry' had been out awhile, and he seemed genuinely stoked about shooting Moz, couldn't believe how legend he was, etcetera. At the time he got
alot of traffic and comments about how great the shots were and eventually he got a bit carried away with himself and announced plans to cobble together a kind of book or box or something of all the shots from the session. To purchase. For money.
And then Morrissey's 'people' speed-dialled cowboymod and....you can guess the rest!
Photographer guy then posts a thing on his site about how, like, uncool and not mod this is and Moz isn't so legend anymore. I think he even had to take the photos down from his site. But I guess Morrissey's people don't mind Youtube.
This guy smelled fishy to me then and he smells fishy now. Never trust a man in a cowboy hat. Especially if he's a hairdresser. In Oxford.
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So now here we are in 2010 and 'JB Salter'
rolleyes
is pinning up contact sheets in a gallery in SW1 and calling them "ART".
Once a chancer, always a chancer...