For the promotion of her latest book “Music”, photographer Deborah Feingold gave multiple interviews to various website where she talked about the iconic Madonna pictures.
I lived in a little one-room apartment in the West Village and had a bowl of bubble gum and lollipops. We didn’t speak except for ‘Turn this way, turn that way.’ No hairstylist, no makeup, no clothing. We were just two working girls. I didn’t have to coax her. She and I worked the entire time. I gave her what she needed, she gave me what I needed, and then she got up and left. I never heard from her again.
I wanted to shoot her and Musician [magazine] wasn’t covering it, so I called up David Keats at the time, who was an editor for Star Hits, and I said, ‘David I really wanna shoot her!’ And he was like ‘OK,’ and that’s what it was like in those days. Can you imagine? ‘Oh, David I wanna shoot her!’ I had been doing some work for Warner Bros, so it wasn’t that far-fetched.”
Boston Globe asked her why her pictures of Madonna took a life of their own.
Her reply….
Silive asked her the same questions…
Silive: Why do you think the photo of Madonna became one of your most iconic photos?
Deborah Feingold: I don’t know why it ended up being such a hit. Is it a naivete? Is it the Madonna everyone wanted to know before she became famous? It’s as interesting to me as it is to anyone else.
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