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Wanting to highlight her strong Gospel roots, Kane tried waving the camera in a circular motion to try to make halo shapes from the light in Aretha's eyes. It worked. This photo is also a rare Art Kane crop—as virtually all his images are composed in full frame.
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This photograph was made for McCalls magazine's "Teen Idols" story in 1966. Kane strapped himself into full scuba gear and weighted himself down at the bottom of Sonny and Cher's Beverly Hills pool. He took hundreds of pictures until he got 'The One'.
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Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker were a new breed of blues band, so Kane decided to shoot them on a railroad track in Chads Ford Pennsylvania, outside of Philadelphia, where the band was performing. After all, what better way to portray the blues than backed by the melancholy of a railway track and the setting sun inflaming Ginger Baker's hair. Drummer Baker, elated over the news that morning of the birth of his son in the UK, would leap up often during the shoot, and roll down the embankment of the train track into bramble bushes, requiring Art's assistant to clean him up. Later, at lunch at a diner in rural Pennsylvania, Baker marched up to a group of firemen who were laughing and pointing at the group of longhaired freaks and said..."What are you laughing at? Look at you in your silly hats"
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Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker were a new breed of blues band, so Kane decided to shoot them on a railroad track in Chads Ford Pennsylvania, outside of Philadelphia, where the band was performing. After all, what better way to portray the blues than backed by the melancholy of a railway track and the setting sun inflaming Ginger Baker's hair. Drummer Baker, elated over the news that morning of the birth of his son in the UK, would leap up often during the shoot, and roll down the embankment of the train track into bramble bushes, requiring Art's assistant to clean him up. Later, at lunch at a diner in rural Pennsylvania, Baker marched up to a group of firemen who were laughing and pointing at the group of longhaired freaks and said..."What are you laughing at? Look at you in your silly hats"
