ORAL HISTORY ARCHIVE:
TRISH MORRISSEY
Interviewed by Richard West
Location: Artist's home, Somerset
Date: June 2012
Trish Morrissey (Portrait by Pete Boyd)
Chapter 7:
(Chapter 7 of 13, Running Time: 00:14:00)
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Chapter 7 Synopsis:
- Was making portraits for glossy magazines.
- Agent sourced advertising jobs, could be paid £3,000 a day.
- When started commissioners worked around photographers but later felt less valued.
- Described process of taking a portrait, make subject like you while setting up.
- Found shoots very stressful because of shortage of time and uncertainty about whether had achieved picture.
- Was bothered by aim to 'get behind the mask' of the subject she was photographing.
- By the end had established a system but this made it more boring.
- Could never separate own work from editorial work which began to feel 'all wrong'.
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