“Hollywood Secret” remembers the black and white night parties

ExclusiveDAFYDD JONES for the first time to Hollywood in the 1980s to take pictures of Vanity Fair. He was lurking, polite, tirelessly and uncomfortable, taking pictures of the wealthy and celebrities.

The parties were really glamorous after that. A wall to the wall of megawat stars. Jack Nicholson and Elizabeth Taylor (never “Liz!”

Advertisers and people who had no convergence with films were excluding rubbing against movie stars, and Hollywood players later came.

It is strange that it is strange that they are interested in swelling parties in Hollywood at a time when many people we knew for decades had faced their lives by the fires that had been provoked by Los Angeles, leaving thousands of homeless, and at least 29 people dead. .

But Vanity Fair plans to move forward with the events of OSCAR-WEEK and will support two local organizations: Motion Picure & Television and Baby2Baby. Charles Vinci will deliver annual movie makers with Chanel at the Beverly Hills Hotel as a collection to collect donations to help the displaced.

Jones, who regretted because Los Angeles has often visited a selection of photographs from Hollywood’s years to Tommy called “Hollywood Secret”, which was just published. Full disclosure: Gones and Anna and I used to assume on the road, be it in Los Angeles, New York or London, and we are friends. He formulated the introduction to his book.

Jones says the way he works “does not put pictures” so that he can “show what was the case,” while he also does not seek to launch anything “not reckless.” I love the way in which Ralph Venins William Neeson, and literally gossip behind Alex Kingson in Steve Tish and Vanity Fair in 1997.

He did not seek permission to take a picture, except, that is, when he was making a restaurant restaurant in the evening standard, and the managers of a club in Mayfair asked him to ask each table if they were thinking. However, because he did not tell them when he planned to pick up, “they all freezed all … they have somewhat ignored me.”

What, I ask, are the rules of engagement in David Jones?

“Just an interesting moment has not been prepared and this is just what happened,” he says. The thing is that I only love to accommodate and not be a very intervention. I am not trying to take an unexpected picture. It is just a natural image, and when the Academy Awards are, it’s great – people usually celebrate a great achievement. But I used to wander because I also wandered around photographing everything, not just celebrities. There are quite a few pictures of the press that works [in ‘Hollywood Confidential’]”

In fact, he took a picture of this column writer talking to Kate Winslet on the night she won an Oscar, at the Oscar Veron Carter in 2009, and I was not aware of him until I saw him spreading somewhere. “You are focusing on getting a scoop from Kate,” laughing.

It was not always the happiest time, of course. At parties, he sometimes sees people who “sniff something about something,” adding, “I mean, at parties, I saw people crying.”

Because they lost? “No, they are upset with something.”

Jones recalls that the late prince who arrived at the Vanity Fair Oscar is absorbing a lollipop with two personal guards, one of which was his son -in -law. “The men with him were telling me” No pictures “all the time. He stopped looking at the room and no one dared to climb to him … but I just did it one shot.

“He knew that I was taking it, and he did not change. Then I left it alone. I don’t think he stayed long.”

Once, while he had famous people throwing themselves in front of him to take their photos, but his response was simply “trying to avoid their eyes.” “If they have public relations with them, they might wave me. Or some of the people I knew want to be photographed, but they were generally not the people I really wanted,” Jones recalls with a harmful smile.

His photos, for me and his numerous herb, great to end, and more in time they go. I wonder whether the reason for this is that a monochrome gives them more time to exist?

“I think it’s a universal thing,” he answers. “Sometimes it is not only a wide smile at a party. He is the person who talks to Ralph Venice William Neeson behind the back of Alex Kingson. This kind of things.”

One of his favorite photos, used on the front cover of “Hollywood Secret” is the comedian Kevin Mini in HBO reports at the Night Oscar hosted by Steve Tish and Vanity Fair, in Morton in 1995.

Meney’s face in some way is mixed with hundreds of photographers, cameras, lights and microphones that were sprayed outside the Hangout session for one time. Jones of Mini, who died in 2016, says it is a study of “obsession and wonder”.

One of my precious photos is a picture that Jones took from Madonna with Make Jagger and Tony Cortis Galasin on both sides. Cortis tends to the singer. It is the intimate relationship that enters me, in addition to the face of Jagger, a well image. A copy of a wall decorates in my basement office.

There is another of Cortis, who definitely loves her hot, as his jam was captured around the Vandenberg generation at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 1995. The actor was married after three years.

While we have lunch at a corner table in Soho House on Greek London Street, we go in the book and thought wandering at the longevity. How were the great acting professions continued?

“Well, some of them are great. Jones simply says:” I think if they are great actors, they continue. “

What Hollywood is doing is to pick up small moments in time. This is actually what the films are doing as well, as James Stewart Peter Bogdanovic explained in a book View the last photos The director wrote in 1973.

Jones resides in a beautiful art and craft style in East Sussex with his wife Linzi, landscape artist, jacket designer, products and scarves. She was a previous owner of her driver at home, while she was living in a larger pile in the next meadow. But after the Second World War, Mrs. Manor moved her driver abroad and moved herself. To help meet her needs, her family turned lands into a camping site, building a bathroom and toilet for the camp. The old paragraphs are briefly removed after Jones stabilized and the space is now a dark room. The garage is a studio.

Jones says he loves to go to the dark room “due to isolation” – and “chemical smell”.

Was he rising from fumes? “No,” as he says, which is what the same idea proposes. “It is toxic and not a pleasant smell, as I assume, but I am used to it,” he added.

His dark room reminds me of my first job job in a news agency located in the vicinity of Fleet Street. John Rodgers, the owner, took control of a sports photography agency, and I enjoyed roaming in the dark room in the bottom of the bottom. The smell was dangerous, but I did not get a height.

Jones says manual printing helps in the liberation process. “It can take me two hours, and because of the density of employment all this, it is greatly narrowed in editing. It encourages me to look at darkness and shades. Black and white negatives are not very tolerant, so you spend a lot of time getting the image to look how it should look .

It is Rapodic about the “rich black tones” of printing and does not like anything more to evoke the largest possible number of black shades.

I always say, “Black is beautiful, darling.”

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