Ken Russell
#Photographe
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Ken Russell, Filmmaker, Photographer
For more than 40 years, Ken Russell has directed some of the most provocative, controversial, and memorable films in British cinema, including Women in Love, The Music Lovers, Tommy, and Altered States. Lesser known is his working life as a photographer, which spans three intense years and crosses over into his early film career.
This exhibition from Ken Russell’s archive at the TopFoto image library, would not have existed had not Alan Smith, (TopFoto’s owner) insisted on taking the negatives away again after showing them to Russell for identification after they were unearthed in the TopFoto archives in 2005. A few months later, Russell’s house burned to the ground, most of his original scripts and research were destroyed.
From 1954 to 1957, after giving up on his career as a ballet dancer, Ru...
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For more than 40 years, Ken Russell has directed some of the most provocative, controversial, and memorable films in British cinema, including Women in Love, The Music Lovers, Tommy, and Altered States. Lesser known is his working life as a photographer, which spans three intense years and crosses over into his early film career.
This exhibition from Ken Russell’s archive at the TopFoto image library, would not have existed had not Alan Smith, (TopFoto’s owner) insisted on taking the negatives away again after showing them to Russell for identification after they were unearthed in the TopFoto archives in 2005. A few months later, Russell’s house burned to the ground, most of his original scripts and research were destroyed.
From 1954 to 1957, after giving up on his career as a ballet dancer, Ru...