| January 4, 1995 Lou Reed at Polaroid studio, 12:00. Black shirts against blue. Lou delights in the instantaneousness (is this a word?( of the 20x24 polaroids.
August 25, 1995 Lou Reed here for Premiere Magazine portrait. 8x10 color polaroids. Hair is shorter than last time, looks especially good. Talk about the new album. He is very excited about it. I'm dying to hear it.
September 27, 1995 Meet with Lou Reed at his office to talk concept for the new album art. We look at everythung I have shot in the last year. Lou mentions an art director, Stephan Sagmeister, whose work impressed him. We call Sagmeister and he immediately invites us over. Sagmeister shows us some amazing designs. He is original and very talented. We agree to meet again next week. Lou was definitely right about this guy.
October 6, 1995 Meet with Lou Reed at Sagmeister‰s office. His ideas are terrific. We decide to shoot some new photographs for the album which is called Set The Twilight Reeling. Lou brings some of the lyrics. They are brilliant and I tell him I can't wait to hear the music. As we leave Lou invites me to his apartment to hear a few cuts. I sit facing a plate glass window with a view of lower Manhattan surrounded by the best sound equipment I have ever seen. Lou plays &quptTrade In" and "HookyWooky." They are both extraordinary songs. The lyrics are some of his best, complicated and also humorous. He is able to squeeze words into spaces where one would not imagine it possible to do so, and still hold the song together.
Thursday, Dec. 5, 1996 3:00 PM Moondance Diner to shoot some video of Lou Reed and Paul Auster for the project. Excellent footage.
October 11, 1995 Shoot in my studio with Lou Reed for new album, Set The Twilight Reeling. Lou is very relaxed and we shoot mostly with the 8x10 camera. Tight closeups are needed for the album design.
October 14, 1995 Visit Lou Reed at recording studio in Soho to hear some more cuts from Set The Twilight Reeling. I love seeing this side of the music world. We have coffee later at Starbucks with Sagmeister.
November 20, 1995 Walk along Canal Street to take some shot for Lou Reed album. One of the songs involves Canal Street.
November 29, 1995 Visit Lou Reed at his place to look at photographs. I know the mock up for my catalogue for the show in Koln at the Kunst-Station Sankt Peter. His portrait is in the catalogue and he very much likes the Peter Hally essay, especially the line about the Liebnitzean monad. As i leave, Lou gives me an advance copy of the new album, Set the Twilight Reeling, due out in February. It's cool being the first on the block. |