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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Terry O'Neill, BRIGITTE BARDOT (LIFETIME SIGNED) , 1971
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Terry O'Neill

BRIGITTE BARDOT (LIFETIME SIGNED) , 1971
Platinum Print
Signed and numbered by Terry O'Neill
BB001
Edition of 50
20 x 24 inch
Terry O'Neill, BRIGITTE BARDOT (LIFETIME SIGNED) , 1971
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Terry O'Neill photographed Brigitte Bardot over several years, but the images that define the series were made on location in Spain in 1971, during the filming of Les Pétroleuses. Bardot...
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Terry O'Neill photographed Brigitte Bardot over several years, but the images that define the series were made on location in Spain in 1971, during the filming of Les Pétroleuses. Bardot was playing an outlaw - leather-clad, gun holstered, cigar in hand - and O'Neill was watching, waiting.

 

"I noticed that when the wind gusted there was potential for a great picture," he said. "When the time came, I only had a few frames left. But suddenly the wind swept her hair across her face, and I knew it was a knock-out."

 

That instinct - patience, timing, the knowledge of when to fire - is what separated O'Neill's work from the controlled celebrity photography of the era. What he captured that day wasn't a performance. It was a moment.

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