------------------ [excerpt from Jerry Hall: My life in pictures, Quadrille Publishing, 2010] --------------------- Richard Avedon was a fantastic photographer who took very intimate and focused shots. He had assistants with hand-held lights so the lighting was constantly moving around you and you were free to pose in any direction.
Other photographers had fixed lights on stands and you had to stay looking in one direction, but Avedon created a moving feast of light and you were free to do whatever you wanted, which was very liberating. --------------------------- [end / excerpt]
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I like how she calls it "a moving feast of light" -- a phrase borrowed from novelist Ernest Hemingway, who said,
"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."
A Moveable Feast is also the title of a memoir by Hemingway.
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