Photographer: Michael Joseph
Date: 1974 approx
Photo Width: 54 cm Height : 30.5cm
Paper Width: 61 cm Height : 44 cm
This picture was composed and taken by Michael, the swedish lady is entirely surrounded by sheep, this copy is laminated, mounted, sports the photographer’s signature and is to appear in an upcoming exhibition.
Anecdote from Michael Joseph & David Saunder’s Complete Photography Course:
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.
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