bette davis

When my friend was a young star photographer at Vogue he was asked to take a portrait of the cinema legend Bette Davis. She wanted spotlights. Peter prefers natural light. She thought the set-up was too simple to be any good. She wanted to see not contacts but huge prints. Her assistant thought they were brilliant. She thought they were crap and scrawled her scatological comments in lipstick. Unfortunately Peter did not keep them. But he did keep the negative. See below!