Re: Photographers

[cuda340@tribeca.ios.com (Tesco Vee)]

Rich B., Re:

>It was a blonde guy who was completely submerged in water, except from the
>nose up. It looked like Roger Daltrey, perhaps from the aquatic scenes in the
>Tommy movie, but in that micro-second it could have just as easily been
>Robert Plant or Sammy Hagar or David Lee Rotha or some other Daltrey
>imitator.  Are there any photo buffs on this list who might know what book I
>glimpsed?  I've looked for it in one or two book stores without success.

        Yes, the blonde guy on the cover is Roger Daltrey.  It's not a
scene from Tommy, but a set-up photographer Lynn Goldsmith created.  I
don't know if it was the same interview you saw, but I saw her on a show
describing a little bit about that shoot.  She said that she took a few
rolls of film altogether, while Roger fooled around in the swimming pool.
She said the cover shot struck her most, because of how the water and his
eyes are very close in color and intensity.  That image is not altered by
computer at all.  Sorry, I don't know the exact title of the book, but it
contains all Lynn Golsmith photographs.  In case you're interested, Lynn
Goldsmith also did the cover photographs for Zappa's Sheik Yerbouti.

>Also somewhat related is my discovery of a sociological book by a woman named
>Donna Gaines, entitled Teenage Wasteland.

        When I took Sociology 101 last semester, the dry, boring, geek
professor read the class some passages from that book.  I couldn't stand
him.  However, when he introduced the book, he said, "Notice the title of
this book, Teenage Wasteland..." and he started SINGING part of Baba
O'Riley, and asked the class of 50 students, "Has anyone heard of the rock
band The Who?"  A couple of people grunted, and I shrank in my chair.
                                                                      Stacey