Unlike previous episodes of Cameras in Music Videos, the Leica M7 in this video looks more like product placement than just a prop. Photo by Adam Bronkhorst Anyway, Sol does his thing, and the M7 definitely is ‘This Sh#t’. Free download of DEAR FRIENDS, VOL. 3 (2011).
Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
January 11, 2012
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Pieter Hugo
By Hypnotheis in Music, Photography, VideoThe other day I came across a photograph on flickr depicting a barefooded man in black suit and tie, standing like he had just ripped a cow’s throat out. The person who had posted this image was not the photographer, but was kind enough to mention the name ‘Pieter Hugo’. I immediately had to find [...]
Tags: Control, hyena, Looking Aside, Mathambo, Permanent Error, Photography, Pieter Hugo, South Africa, Spoek Mathambo
October 28, 2011
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Cameras in music videos … Polaroid × Michael Jackson
By Hypnotheis in Music, Photography, VideoIn 1983 Michael Jackson escaped the lense of a Polaroid Autofocus 660 in the video for Billie Jean. Photo by Sean Smith Surrounding the Polaroid is what appears to me as a bunch of Mamiya Z-series cameras, but what’s more important: Is that a (Dirty) Diana I see there in the upper left corner?! Your [...]
Tags: 660, autofocus, Billie Jean, Diana, Lomography, Mamiya, Michael Jackson, MJJ, Photography, Polaroid, private detective
October 10, 2011
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Cameras in music videos … Nikon × Duran Duran
By Hypnotheis in Fashion, Music, Photography, VideoIn 1981 Duran Duran used a Nikon FE to capture three femmes fatales on a fashion runway in their video for “Girls On Film”. The camera is seen with a Nikkor-s Auto 1:2.8 f=35mm–and possibly an MD-11 or MD-12 motor drive. Picture by Alfredo Hantsch The song begins with a recording of the rapid whirring [...]
Tags: Duran Duran, Kodak, music video, nikkor, Nikon, Nikon FE, Tri-x
September 27, 2011
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Cameras in music videos … Graflex × Sir Mix-a-Lot
By Hypnotheis in Music, Photography, VideoIn 1992 Sir Mix-a-Lot had a Graflex Speed Graphic in his video for “Baby Got Back”. Produced by Graflex in Rochester, New York, the Speed Graphic is commonly called the most famous press camera. Although the first Speed Graphic cameras were produced in 1912, production of later versions continued until 1973; with the most significant [...]
Tags: butt, Crown Graphic, Graflex, large format, Pacemaker, Photography, Sir Mix-a-Lot, Speed Graphic
September 23, 2011
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Cameras in music videos … Minolta × Olympus × Flødeklinikken
By Hypnotheis in Music, Photography, VideoWith a Minolta 7000 AF, an Olympus OM (possibly M-1 og OM-2), and a third unidentified camera Flødeklinikken let’s three girls shoot eachother for their 2011 video “Piger med pistoler” (“Girls with Guns”). Picture by Steve Harwood Picture by Spyros Bouboukas If you can identify the third camera, please let us know. We just gots [...]
Tags: 7000 AF, Flødeklinikken, Maxxum, Minolta, Olympus
September 21, 2011
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Cameras in music videos … Nikon × Elton John
By Hypnotheis in Fashion, Music, Photography, VideoIn 1985 Elton John used the Nikon FM2 with a MD-12 motordrive to capture the beautiful borderguard in the video for “Nikita”. Obviously he hadn’t done a lot of zooming prior to the video shoot. Picture by David Guimarães The FM2n (1983) was available in either black or chrome finish. The camera is fully mechanical; [...]
Tags: e-6, ektachrome, Elton John, FM2, Fuji, Fujifilm, Kodak, md-12, md12, music video, Nikita, Nikon, Velvia
July 22, 2011
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Photography & Jazz
By Hypnotheis in Graphic design, Music, Photography, VideoWhat could be better? The other day I saw a book on Blue Note album covers and it made me wonder who took these iconic photographs. So I did what you do in these situations; I looked to Google, then Vimeo and YouTube, and so, here’s the guy: German born Francis Wolff (1907/08–1971). After a [...]
Tags: Alfred Lion, Blue Note, documentary, Francis Wolff, jazz, Photography, Reid Miles
March 1, 2011
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Morton Subotnick
By Hypnotheis in Music, VideoA favorite of mine, though, is Raymond Scott and his “Lightworks” (thanks to J Dilla and his interpretation from 2006).
Tags: Electric Independence, electro, electronic, history, J Dilla, moog, Morton Subotnick, Motherboard, Music, Raymond Scott, synthesizer