Stephen Wright - The Smiths photographs 84-86 June-August '18 @ Central Library, Manchester (free)

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Coming soon Manchester Central library 1st June- 25 August small BUT free exhibition of photographs of The Smiths.



Featuring some from his portfolio available to buy or view here:

https://www.smithsphotos.com

http://wrightphotolimited.zenfolio.com/smiths#h50b2d16e

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Photo collectors or anyone thinking of a print to frame should check out Stephen's work. Better prices than some.
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FWD.
 
The picture he is holding really says it all. It captures the band in its entirety. Like another iconic photo:

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people can go to to this then onto the concert.photographs say so much.
 


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'Sleepless nights': Photographer shares stories behind The Smiths' most iconic shots.

Excerpt:

"Wright was living in a shared student house in Longsight with five friends in 1985 when, ‘out of the blue’, he received a call from The Smiths’ record label, Rough Trade, asking him to take some photos of the band in Salford.

After a sleepless night, Wright turned up with a friend who he had convinced to provide moral support on what he described as a ‘dark, grimy’ day, leading him to take mostly black and white photos.

“If they hadn’t come up from London, then we’d probably have cancelled the whole thing,” he said.

Wright described The Smiths as ‘very unassuming’, noting that they did not have an entourage of hair stylists and makeup artists as the biggest pop stars of that time would have had.

The film was then processed in Wright’s bedroom which doubled up as a darkroom using chemicals which were kept in old fizzy-drinks bottles before sending it to London on the Red Star Parcels courier service from Piccadilly Station.

Later that year, Morrissey thanked Wright in a note displayed at the exhibition which says, “A sweeter set of pictures were never taken. I smiled for a full minute.”

The photo, and the relationship that the photographer developed with Salford Lads’ Club following its fame, led the club to make Wright an honorary member."


http://www.mancunianmatters.co.uk/c...hares-stories-behind-smiths-most-iconic-shots

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