Dancing at Shalimar in Oakland in 1983. From the book, Oakland Blues. Photo by Michelle Vignes
While I was surfing through info about Michelle Vignes for a previous post, I came across a quaint little piece on SportsShooter.
When reporter Jim Merithew describes Vignes’ accent as French, she corrects him:
“I don’t have a French accent. I have a mixed accent. I got my accent when I worked at Magnum. Everybody had a different accent; part French, part Hungarian, part German, part whatever it is. So that’s my Magnum salad.”
Vignes also has a cut-to-the-chase view of documentary photographers today:
“They seem to work on the web. To me it is just like spitting in the wind.”
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November 3, 2012 at 4:40 am
In conversation with the writer Pete Brook of Prison Photography and WIRED. « PHONAR – A free and open photography class
[…] http://www.amazon.com/Bay-Area-Blues-Lee-Hildebrand/dp/1566405955 “Magnum Salad” https://prisonphotography.org/2011/03/21/magnum-salad/ Late into her life, Vignes collaborated with social activist artists. In 2011, with RIGO23: […]