Adam Dons Jacket, Talks Art
The friendship between Adam Clayton and Michael Hoppen, a leading London-based dealer of art photography, was profiled by Hugh Montgomery for The Independent‘s “How We Met” series.
It’s a great, short read, in which Adam tells us Hoppen got him interested in Japanese photography, and Hoppen says what he and Adam share is not a passion for the same music, but for creativity.
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Thank you for the great link! I know Larry would probably refuse, but I’d love to read a long Rolling Stone article (or even a book!) that interviewed the band about everything BUT music. I found this read very refreshing and interesting. Really gives you a new slant on Adam as a person.
If you dig through Michael Hoppen’s gallery website and previous Japanese exhibitions, you’ll see that it was likely Adam Clayton that “discovered” and suggested Hiroshi Sugimoto’s imagery for the cover of “No Line On The Horizon”. Four5One Creative took it from there…
Very interesting article; insightful regarding how “normal” of people famous musicians really are.
I was thinking the same thing, Lance. Of the four, it was most likely Adam who was prepared to suggest Sugimoto’s work to the band. I was looking around on the web for a copy of the car-carriage photo by Lartigue Adam bought, but that one doesn’t seem to be out there. Lots of other Lartiques are, of course.
Calhouns, here’s the link to the Lartiques’ “turn of the century” photograph:
http://wolfeyebrows.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/jacques-henri-lartigue-3.jpg
Great! Thanks for tracking it down.