Nude swedish model surrounded by sheep (wool advert for IWF from the seventies) large format black and white print by Michael Joseph

Print from original negative

Photographer:         Michael Joseph
Date:                       1974 approx

Photo                      Width: 91 cm                        Height : 50.5cm

Paper :                    Width: 102 cm                       Height : 72 cm

Picture created by Michael of the Swedish model surrounded by sheep, printed from an original negative, signed by the photographer.  Extract from the Complete Photography Course, book by Michael Joseph & Dave Saunders:

The nude in the sheep is probably my  all-time ‘favourite’. It was for the  International Wool Secretariat, and  was one of the first advertising shots  Paul Arden and I did together. The  best exposure was in black and white  with the black-faced sheep staring  straight at her for one instant of a  second, when the girl’s pose was just  right and the sunlight was on her. A  trillion to one chance as there was  only one neg where the sunlight hit  the girl perfectly. In the next neg the  black sheep had disappeared into  the crowd. That session took about  two hours, two flocks of sheep and  involved three shepherds holding the  sheep in with mobile fencing, and a  stylist with a walkie-talkie, who  swooped in every time the girl’s hair  looked blown. I was in a fur coat and  fur hat, looking a bit like a mad Rod  Stewart. She was on a 600 incline and  the 600 sheep just filled the frame.  –  needed a 1000mm lens on a Pentax  and shot from across the valley; it  actually rained between us.

This print is unique and scheduled to appear in an upcoming exhibition.  Please contact Iconic Images London for sizes and availibility of this picture.

A link to their website for similar pictures by the photographer can be accessed here:  https://iconicimages.net/gallery/music-michael-joseph/