Naked swedish model surrounded by sheep, from Nude but not rude Collection, London Advertising Photography Postcard by Michael Joseph

Photographer:     Michael Joseph
Date:                   1975

Postcard :                W :  154mm               H :  154mm

Anecdote from my dad’s book “The Complete Photography Course” (published back in the 1990s) :

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 the swedish model 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.  We used a 1000mm lens on a Pentax  and shot from across the valley; it  actually rained between us.

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