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Clive has created quintessential photographs throughout the years in fashion, music and advertising for the likes of American Vogue with the talented Grace Coddington, contributing to the glossy pages of French Vogue, Vanity Fair and Harper's Bazaar. His subjects include David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Michael Caine, Prince Charles and iconic fashion figures such as Yves Saint Laurent amongst many others. He has also taken portraits of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, several times and he is the only photographer to have shot the Pirelli calendar two years in succession with a theme of “Heroines” and “ Chinese Astrology, he is also the author of two fascinating books,
“ Arrowsmith” showcasing beautiful unseen fashion photography and “ LS Lowry a unique selection of unpublished pictures, which capture the atmosphere in which the painter lived and worked.
His photographs are like paintings with a rebellious streak and maybe one sentence could sum up his work perfectly, in the words of Francis Bacon
‘In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present’.
Photograph by Clive Arrowsmith .©.