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XTC on stage at the Edge.
(L.-R.) Barry Andrews- keyboard, Colin Moulding- vocals, bass, Terry Chambers- drums, Andy Partridge- vocals, guitar
Andy was gracious and sweet. Not many musicians would come off a set, and then pose so patiently for a young photography student.
Suzanne Malouk later moved to NYC, where she met and married the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. I photographed Suzanne several times in Toronto back in 78/79. She was a unique, beautiful subject and I well can understand why Basquiat chose her as his muse. I photographed her by chance backstage with XTC, and then arranged to make 4 by 5 (large format negative) portraits of her, merging with and crawling out of metal tubing in a construction site. She had inherited from her mother an incredible collection of clothes, dating to the London Carnaby St. scene of the 60s.
(Luck has it- mine preferred Marks and Sparks) While Suzanne prepared for our shoot, she applied white face make-up and smeared dark circles beneath her eyes. "Do I look sick? I want to look sick!," she exclaimed, decades before the fashion scene figured this out for themselves. Suzanne was a punk trailblazer, and unforgettable.
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photos plus contacts from the Edge gig are on my Indyfoto site.
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