The above shot of Mick Jagger is by Annie Liebowitz, from 1975, and it's featured in Vanity Fair in an excerpt from a forthcoming book on how Liebowitz works. An excerpt of how the then fledgling Rolling Stone photographer wound up taking a leave of absence to go on the road with Jagger and the Stones, as the tour photographer:
The band was rehearsing at Andy Warhol’s place in Montauk, at the end of Long Island, and I went out there for a month or so, and then there was a break and the tour started in June. I was very naïve. I brought my tennis racket with me. I thought that maybe as we went from city to city I would take tennis lessons. I didn’t know what I was getting myself into. They were paying me a few hundred dollars a week and I was supposed to create publicity pictures, but I only managed to get a few out the first day and that was it. I was never up during the day again. I was always with the band.
At the time, I thought that the way to get the best work was to become a chameleon. To become so much a part of what was going on that no one would notice you were there. It was unbelievably stupid of me to pick that situation to become part of. I did everything you’re supposed to do when you go on tour with the Rolling Stones. It was the first time in my life that something took me over.
More here. Looks to be a good read in the works.
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