In 1985, photographer Jeannette Montgomery Barron captured a rare set of intimate portraits of renowned photographer Cindy Sherman.
When Barron arrived, Sherman was dressed in a simple shirt and pants; that was how she was photographed. Barron just presumed that she wanted to be photographed that way and did not ask her to change or get into one of her characters.“I’m always nervous before a shoot — even now — but that goes away once I’m in the door and behind the camera,” Barron tellsThe Simple Camera Techon a tripod and slapped on a Carl Zeiss Sonnar 150mm f/4 .
“Maybe once or twice in my career [I have used a reflector],” she explains. “I hate those things — can never get them to fold up!”from the windows and measured the incident light hitting her face as she was concerned about getting a good exposure.Sekonic light meter. I always was [worried about correct exposure] and always will be. I think the worrying keeps me on my toes.
“I’ll let you in on a little secret — back then, I sometimes used a softening filter, especially when photographing women.” [She lets me in on her secret when I tell her that I am seeing something unique in the soft skin tones.]“I only had assistants on commercial jobs,” she says. “When I’m taking a portrait, I like the intimacy of being in the room alone with the subject.
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