Sinéad O\'Connor 48 reproduces the chronological sequence of photographs from one of the first photographic shoots with Sinéad for a magazine cover, including the out-takes. or rather, let me say, I have found that the portrait was a small lighted candle by which the biographies could for the first time be read....
Thomas Carlyle wrote Often I have found a portrait superior in real instruction to half a dozen written \'biographies\'....
It has an easy presence and doesn\'t intrude in the way many cameras do.
It\'s a gentle camera, with a leaf shutter that is almost silent.
I gradually shot four rolls of 120 film - 48 frames - with my Rolleiflex while we continued our conversation.
I had set up a backdrop and we sat either side of a table.
Eventually we moved to another room with a huge bay window and perfect daylight.
We drank tea and talked.
Her face was lively and expressive, captivating, with an indefinable air that encompassed fragility, strength, experience, intensity and something feral.
I hadn\'t met Sinéad before.
Deceptively simple, the sequence provides an unusual insight into her character, the process of portraiture, and the many facets of the human face.
It gives a fascinating insight into both Sinéad at a turning point in her life, as she was becoming famous, and into the process of a photographic portrait as frame by frame the picture is rearranged and developed.
Sinéad O\'Connor 48 reproduces the chronological sequence of photographs from one of the first photographic shoots with Sinéad for a magazine cover, including the out-takes
