Vintage-Style Radiohead Portraits To Be Exhibited In London
By Hayden Wright
(RADIO.COM) – A series of vintage-style Radiohead portraits by photographer Sebastian Edge will be displayed in a London exhibition at Metropolis Studios in October. The photos make use of the Wet Collodion development process, which was high-tech back in the late 19th century. The system calls for treated glass and predates modern camera film, so each piece is both unique and steeped in history.
Edge told The Line of Best Fit how these one-of-a-kind vintage photographs came to be.
"In January 2011, I received a call from Radiohead HQ. They'd heard about a photographer that was making pictures with this early Victorian process, with a camera built from Hurricane timber, and wondered if I was still making pictures having disappeared from the music scene for a while," he said. "Within a few weeks I arrived at their studio and spent two separate days making the pictures for their King Of Limbs campaign."
The earthy, time-tested process appealed to band members.
"A day in the woods and a day at their studio," said Edge. "[Bassist] Colin [Greenwood] loved it, being a photographer himself. And after a while I think they realized these weren't just photos they are works of hard crafted art and as analogue and as hands on as it could possibly get!"
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