Interview with St Germain for the Australian
V1 - AUSE01Z31MA THE AUSTRALIAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2016 ARTS theaustralian.com.au/arts 15 Mali on MAN RAY TRUST Man Ray’s Glass Tears (Les Larmes), part of the collection Elton John reveals keen his mind eye for photography JACK MALVERN Man Ray, Picabia show in 2008. “Many photography curators Elton John became fascinated have been to see his work over with photography when he was the years because he has a very looking for something to distract large collection including works him during his recovery from from 1900 to today,” she says. drug addiction. The singer, who does not take “I went from complete photographs himself, says he and darkness to brilliant sunshine,” David Furnish, his husband, he said of the moment in 1991 regard the exhibition as a great when he bought his first vintage honour. photograph, a year after rehab. “The modernist era in About 7000 pictures later he photography is one of the key St Germain has made his is sharing his passion with the moments within the medium comeback with a career- public with an exhibition at Tate and collecting work from this defining album Modern devoted to modernist period has brought me great joy KEVIN DAVIES prints, including Man Ray’s over the last 25 years,” he says in Glass Tears and Andre Kertesz’s a statement. “Each of these Underwater Swimmer. photographs serves as marries those syncopated beats Bridgewater) were recorded sep- what I’d done, that he found it re- after he walked into an indepen- Although John is known for inspiration for me in my life; they St Germain explains why he had to and vocal samples with the tra- arately.
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