Lou Dalgleish
http://mydarlingclementinemusic.co.uk/
The Word , May 2007
IT IS A FACT OF MEDIA LIFE that the people most reluctant to submit to having their pictures taken are the very people who make their livings taking such pictures.
What precise combination of charm and guile young Icelandic photographer Emilie Sandy employed to persuade some of the more venerable members of the rock photography fraternity to re-stage some of their most iconic shots with them in front of the lens rather than behind it we shall never quite know . It has however resulted in Deja Vu, an upcoming exhibition of Sandy's work in which the likes of Gered Mankowitz court photographer to the young Stones, Terry O'Neill, lensman to the stars of many decades, and Andy Earl, the man who designed the American Gothic look of late-period Johnny Cash, take the place of their subjects.
The idea came when casting around for a suitable place to photograph Mankowitz. The Salisbury, the pub in St Martins Lane where in 1964 the 18-year-old Mankowitz took the defining picture of the 18-year-old Marianne Faithfull was still largely intact, so they decided to stage the picture there. 'When we took the picture of Chris Gabrin (above), who did the Elvis Costello This Year's Model cover in 1978, you had all sorts of interesting things going on. Elvis was pretending to be Chris and now Chris was pretending to be Elvis. I took the picture with the Hasselblad that Chris used originally while he posed with mine.
I did it because I find other photographers' work very inspiring . All the photographers were happy to be asked and were very supportive of my idea.'