Jim Lee began his career as a music photographer during the early 1960s working with bands, such as The Who and The, and the . He helped to define the fashion aesthetic of the Swinging Sixties before he changed track and turned his hand to directing commercials and feature films in the 1970s. Lee’s photographic portfolio is lauded for its artistic merit, and it has earned him a permanent collection at the V&A. This image was taken on a Nikon F camera with a 200m lens. The model is Celia Birtwell and it was taken for designer Ossie Clark in 1969. “The idea here,” says Lee, “was to believe that this girl had just got out of this plane having crashed it and survived, she would simply brush off the dust and walk away unscathed.” Paul Smith is selling a limited number (15) of signed fine art Giclée Pigment prints on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308 gsm. It would certainly make an impressive Christmas gift for someone with a bit of spare space on the wall: 107 x 107 x 5cm, to be precise.
