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full of joy pure happiness it's very hard to win the tour. the people here and across colombia are extremely proud of their new hero and a guy on edge is 22 years old has become a new motivation for colombians who are looking forward to many successful years in the sport. you're watching d.w. news up next our documentary film fashion photographer a positive 5 chasing beauty for me terry martin and all of us here in berlin thanks for being with us. first state school in the jungle. for 1st coming less of a minute or as grand as arrives. joining a reckoning on her journey back to freedom. in our interactive documentary.
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it's better. to stay. it's clear. to be i'd like to invite was a fire fight to join me on stage while divided who are you. each day not. i wasn't prepared for that question but. i feel incredibly fortunate i never would have thought that things would take off like this when i turn 60 well maybe not take off but things keep getting better and better. but i'm far.
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again open up to it. and. is only about the 2 minutes act naturally the so for the group which food prep barely sold for that week box dope. you know what. a. chump i need to just get an idea and then i have to go through with it no matter what i insist sometimes it doesn't work out at all he doesn't want to or she doesn't want to work that doesn't work but you have to be incredibly patient like that painter said i don't know who it was anymore the big one in france he said you need the patience of an ox that had a big impact on me. you can't just give up and say you've had enough that's funny
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of the. food. does. you don't make it hot he wanted both. you got other folks. that has your best magic said scenario those who know. you know that much by the. way that went to a stylist school last year. or so now he knows everything you know. so that it was a balance to clothe. get comfy little to grow many fashion photographers want to become artistic pushed that hardly ever goes well with emotions and the end they're still just fashion photography. for the writer is one of the few people who went from art real pure art to fashion and that's why his
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work is so convincing and that's why it's unmistakable he has a distinct find for a style that the 15. bucks. you can go. into. that's just honest but this is typical for a voter style that if this is him and his purest form. of the hope that will and it's so simple head down bottom up to strive for it it might just be an ad for stockings to be but you can instantly recognize his signature you know that they're just going to be stealing nuts in the can that. you know really between you. ok. for fear of them. 40 years ago i started out as an illustrator at the targets on psycho magazine it used to produce more issues than it does now. that not both
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a small polaroid and took pictures to use as a template. called like a vis glass and. so then i had all these little pictures and i copied them from my drawings. that's for photography itself i was too scared of doing it because my hands tremble in mine. and i always have. to say i couldn't take pictures without a flash because they would always come out blurry. vision. and when we 1st started working together we weren't using digital cameras we were still using analog film his 1st job for vogue was with the stylist honest ozzy about getting and the model
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if i had to go for that vita i took 2 or 3 photos and then he simply got up and left. them to me for. the end to fast and they said ok vita can we get to work now for sure and he said what do you mean i'm already done and that you have to take a 100 pictures they said no you said 3 are enough in the fashion world that was pretty extreme. but as for me he movie he's my surroundings have always been very important to me even though i never go have a look at where i am during the shooting beforehand so i just go and let things begin. oh here kitty and the same rule applies here don't discuss things in advance notice cautions.
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directing directing that's what the guys love the good ones too well actually everyone does. i'm going to see this multiple to one reason why he became so successful. was the fashion photography with all its skillful artificiality needed to be reinvented the 3 she needed artists to reimagine fashion small didn't know you. should we have a huge problem with beauty especially when it comes to serious art. we have delegated the concept of beauty and the way we handle it to advertising to such an extent that no serious artists dares dealing with it anymore i foolishly for me i
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mean to me it's like a reincarnation from earlier days when beauty was still taken seriously. it is joy in playing with forms and colors like celebrating a young life just reaching its cusp you may 2nd to become the lappets even if you might appear hesitant at times about his art is very life affirming obvious that comes into the extreme love and spill. photo shoot feeling. leaning leaning. it all should and will have bullfinches should exist you seem to feel you can. will contest leading into that you would will succeed this is so deep so far.
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well to 5 voter 5 you originally did an apprenticeship as a window decorator right yes if you know what that is that shuffles and i think i was yes in shock. i can imagine it was a bad breaking job but i'm sure it was also interesting did you learn anything new . i learnt the most from the saleswomen. all used to wear yellow aprons it was part of their uniform. if they don't do that anymore i like the way they looked all the same they had all sorts of intrigues it was like elementary school for life. really intrigues i said yes i believe they were the head decorator it was about as old as i am now. gentles a steep staircase leading out steps. that half past 6 all the saleswoman would walk
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up those stairs in that aprons no pants back then and he would always stand at the bottom of the stairs gnashing his teeth. does it for i love that story sorry for bringing it up but you did ask lots. of long week does he have. when you look. so. that is mean we didn't last 16 or. our last. few years at least real close. just looked at least.
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see. the only thing i needed was material to sketch. i started taking pictures of the people who came to visit me in my little room. sit on my bed and tell me what was needed while i worked my butt. saying. this is a page from a scrap book that's going to be published soon all these books turned out very fake . just. go. oh you know. sure. you know this. so. far.
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so. used to love sketching with a pencil. then. that brought me to the attention of john christophe the curator of the museum of art in lieu sun at the time. he said he was doing an exhibition called transformer. stands for he asked me to just wander about and explore the topic. i saw carlo in the library of the school of applied arts i was completely and raptured by his beauty.
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if we didn't all of it as if he were in the very 1st series of carlow your for the transformer exhibition by john christophe a man in the sound you can watch how he becomes this remarkable black and white bouquet of flowers. you know. ever since the fifty's and sixty's until today there's been an intense debate about identity who am i. the vault and his work in the 1970 s. multiply for also asked this question. even today it still seems quite relevant.
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who am i what does it mean to be gay how can i lead a gay life. if. it was a time when the 1st steps were being made to publicly address this issue in germany in the seventy's it was still forbidding to be openly gay to. see. the moment. i can look so young i can't even quite recall where i 1st saw this picture. and might actually have been in his studio. i could immediately sense that i needed this picture. in that i was going through a deep crisis with my male image at the time it was more about my role as a man and less about my sexual preference as. i could.
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i always told myself a book has to stand out on a bookshelf and still shoulder everyone has to feel the urge to pick it up and ask what's not with them or was this the tongue i fished off night. when i went back to new york to ask me to take his book with me and show it to andy warhol. ok i promised i'd try. my 2nd day in new york i went over and told him i was from zurich and had something that might interest and. he hesitated a moment. but then he came from. he was very nervous walters nervous too but warhol seems 10 times more fidgety. he
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looked through the book well that's great great great great pictures script great great great great great when you back in zurich tell your friend to do more pictures more pictures but not such dirty ones. and i was thinking really any warhol just said that i couldn't believe it i'll be up to you early but of course the book was published and there was no reaction whatsoever none. and i kept thinking to myself this can't be happening 10 years and nothing to show for it it's . awful ferguson does you have to remember it was the 1980 s. and things were more uptight back down or there were these dolls little boys were allowed to play with these can dolls male barbie dolls. but in the 1980 s. he couldn't put his hand on his pants lipstick perhaps that was still too gay.
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or didn't do this and there were some things there that could clearly be seen as pornographic. even today. but then there is this italian beach picture i think that says mother. see how to get you so she took it all really well my mother really got here at the office and she said it reminded her of the olden days so other mothers were different. my mother was really cool about it she never worried about what i was up to she was open to everything oh i remember i once said i wanted to be famous she said it was more important to stay healthy she was right in a way. oh. was . was.
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just a dick for voters plus what you hope will do this that exceeded and fed it all with what was being shown at the time what was hip so to speak with of the work i could recognize as personal taste or is known to native his technical imperfection and all of that appealed to me because i found his book very lively and i was so enthused by had that i immediately decided i wanted to do an exhibition with this photographer for the gulf war and also the local this was this was the poster he designed. this is his writing this thing and it all went very quickly from munich to zurich and back again. a little through a little bit it only took 3 or 4 weeks and then he flew in and i met him and this is in the whole garden and munich this photo sums up his whole personality or.
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was was. she. then i started writing and realized that i couldn't i wasn't a writer i became desperate again. that old amuses in the world can't help you it's . and then suddenly i remembered that i had a box full of tapes in the basement. full of tapes as we go along to forge good tape he'd been taping phone conversations with his friends for years and if you liked a particular sentence he jotted it down his play vi to be less like a collage or a crazy collage i can still remember a couple of scenes that i liked very much the music would give like this one a boy in a civil servants office who's the official stamp like or. the
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. office is that which i was for was of course totally absurd to have sort of theater but very very funny and the audience went along with it wonderfully. it's about a need to be ops it was never my intention to write one play off to another i was just curious if i could write something that people would actually come to see but some showed just this movie. to call me. feeley out not to buy me as many people said my 1st book of photos was terrible
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everything completely overexposed this is one person told me it was simply a catastrophe from a photographic point of view i know somebody else said i still had a lot to learn so i really wanted to learn so i bought a big 1000 want to make my pictures look professional of dummy december and that's how my little photo studio sorts came to be so what it does have decent photo studio time from. that's me almost in gimme back then in high school in the 80s sure his own life was boring. i wondered if there was anything else beyond like zurich. so we go to see voter he was like zurich's andy warhol. recently
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and he will miss it in syria other than a photo here and it worked thanks to him i went to new york and could travel around for a few years i had a good time as a model. so. falter is an emotional person creative pleasant to work with. seeing. does move to read oh no prejudices of each of all he cared about what the people themselves before. it's got on the mansions it wasn't about who you were where you were from i gave you more what your incarnations were. he never had to ask you guys all you mean if you could tell them this pictures who people truly were. the naked ones wanted to be naked that's for sure. khloe or. this is me rowing.
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and finding new models was the hardest part i couldn't use the old ones from the 1st book well that was done and over with it was a phase. in my life is like a rocket the burns up and then the next period. next day he was one survivor he'd brought me my 1st models. at that time department stores used to be open late one day a week and these boys would hang out there with their pimps mopeds. and. when i walked by it felt like eldorado and. then he came along and said no problem and brought them all over to me and there was always a lot going on on thursday evenings. 3.
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of his place was sparsely furnished i painted and took pictures there he used a simple camera. as soon as he got behind us camera he was like a sniper. he knew exactly what he was aiming at and when to pull the trigger. he was gay everyone knew that then we'd make jokes about it. you never crossed the line if he had word would have spread and he would have been branded for life but nothing ever happened. to you. does king. that went on for 2 years until one day john christophe called and said you've got to make submission next year 1906 at the with these faces. i still had a lot of work to do. about the same time in 1905 paris had given me
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a studio to stop because. back then he was still looking for new faces he always liked to actually buy so he made me his assistant and i combed through paris with him says my job was to approach young people he found interesting and then ask them if maybe they wanted to have a famous photographer take their picture. book so i grabbed my backpack and we went to different parts of town every day he'd approach them they'd say no problem i took my pictures every day so we went through all of paris searched it from top to bottom far and wide i was the happiest person in the world it was like a miracle. miracle it's miracle. set
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for the exhibition was in basel 1906 so i already had my driver's license that we drove over and it was such a big event outside in the showcase as you can see is pictures on display we were so excited about that he said you know what the gong. i went with my mother i was 17. he was sharing an exhibition with bruce weber. of course bruce weber was the star of the eighty's and i was just a nobody from switzerland that's how i felt he was professional not like me to. me anyway i was there at the opening and the only thing i remember was that he told his scout to go over and approach good stuff. on to the king so he went over and invited to new york for shooting. stuff was in 7th heaven of course and i just
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stood there like a drowned rat you could see the difference i was nothing and he was everything i need alice. now. after the big exhibition of the queen style in basel i've had quite enough of all the photos of all the people and of photography all together. so i decided to create still lives just for myself. so there was nothing and nobody to disturb me. and i could just paint for days in peace for me or here. to be done if. another phase had ended. it really was a case of disappearing off the radar a month nobody knew who i was anymore and it was better that way. the
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t.v. on the left the cats behind me and the canvas in front of me i drew one painted picture after picture like an artist it was bliss kind. for the most vocal you're those who some. of which are. the core of the ship is. obviously receive those distinctions. i mean we have a clip because you have to look at all 3 components of his work to really understand him. the pictures the drawings and not to be underestimated his videos the performances. supposed that also spoke to me they were a continuation of his theater and also took up aspects of his photography as a classic involved it gets me. consists of all these elements and you can't
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separate them and all. those who live out of all today have to be involved his amazement at the world stems from the fact that he moved to the city from humble circumstances and at the 5. who. didn't it was in the late 1960 s. when many possibilities were just opening up and lots was changing. it's not safe and i think that it was dog for. he still carries the wonder of a country boy who is now in the big city but who hasn't forgotten how to be amazed .
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when the folks welcome aboard came out everyone said it was such a great comeback but it didn't feel that way to me it was just a new phase. the day agency's books most of the idea behind this book was to present his photos to the general public again or beautiful to bring him back from obscurity i think it's all of it right you can make people didn't know who voted 54 was anymore. one nice side effect was that he started taking pictures again of years. my favorite picture is from his book. as it does give the same. when i saw it this one i just thought oh wow is that me. banging on about how to make one point he told me i was a muse really with him you really have to being
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a muse. but . i can't develop the application people know baltar as someone who takes pictures of beautiful boys but he is also good at taking pictures of women. if a certain lively for volatile distinguishes this book has a very beautiful lack of seriousness. 8 because. the book was very well received and greatly contributed to his breakthrough. it's very unusual for someone over 60 to get involved in the world of vogue and such but seen a lot of leaking oil. this year but thanks to his endless enthusiasm val to greatly
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enjoy. going into 0 smalls. we'll originally wanted to check out clue as a shooting location it seemed to be a foot 1st we stopped at dior the store i used to walk by when i had my studio in paris. and i was starstruck other new montane do your malina dietrich up stairs. when we got to san clue and i saw all these expensive shoes and the gravel and the trees and the model with the dogs and i wasn't happy at all please i asked if we could go back so we went back to deal to the stairwell and everything was perfect
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perfect. that was the 3rd high level job i had. now after that happened with vogue i was approached by an agency in america to me it's the best agency i could imagine can come from without an agent i wouldn't be where i am now i'd still be at the targets on saigon. having an agency i thought i'd have to work like a mule at the age of 60. yeah . yeah. yeah. yeah ok that's not.
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ok. that's nice. thank you that's good. that's wonderful. people yeah. i have big. run run run run run run good. he was funded by taking a few course and you do a lot of articles for big magazines for free it's just what you do to polish your name. so wretched ample days it was a freebie one day on working till you dropped. oh
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ali forgive me everybody always asks me why aren't you in paris or london or tokyo it's in salt but it's so perfect to come back here to be like cinderella and start all over again and focus on something new on their own to farm them and to see chalfont was to come see. cuba how nice no i don't plan to do anything and yet i thought most i might do a bit more cleaning i haven't done any keating again today i'm really surprised at what still comes my way it may sound modest but it's true. and i hope i still have a few good ideas that would be even better. well he's. the 1st. of.
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never read a book like this or. does the term mr sherman the streets. load . load. this is state of the news live from berlin a doctor for a russian opposition leader election of ali says he may have been poisoned wagner was rushed from jail to the hospital yesterday after suffering what was initially called an allergic reaction but is foul play to blame. also coming up china condemns the anti-government protests in hong kong.
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