Video
Many of the photos in the book Sex are actually stills. Photographers from Steven Meisel Studio shot many of the sessions with regular photography, while fashion photographer Fabian Baron, Stephen Callaghan and Darren Lew shot a number of the sessions on video as well as Super 8-mm film to recreate the gritty look of a vintage stag movie.
Much of this footage was utilized for the video for the single Erotica, which Baron directed. Grainy black and white film of Madonna as a dominatrix with male slaves and as a pony-girl in a leather harness and bridle were filmed at New York's S&M club The Vault. (Photos taken at The Vault also appear in the book.) An hour of this footage was then compiled for a film that Madonna had played during a party she gave for the release of Sex at New York City's Industria Superstudio. Madonna also had 100 copies of the film made to give to her closest friends. This film boasted a soundtrack of vintage French chansons from the 1930s through the 1960s by such singers as Charles Trenet, Gilbert Bécaud, Charles Aznavour, Johnny Hallyday, Édith Piaf, Françoise Hardy, Maurice Chevalier and Josephine Baker. Generally known as The Making of Sex, copies of the film still occasionally turn up for sale. The original 60-minute edit with the French noir soundtrack once went for prices as high as $1,250 U$—costing even more than the book itself.
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Famous quotes containing the word video:
“We attempt to remember our collective American childhood, the way it was, but what we often remember is a combination of real past, pieces reshaped by bitterness and love, and, of course, the video past—the portrayals of family life on such television programs as “Leave it to Beaver” and “Father Knows Best” and all the rest.”
—Richard Louv (20th century)
“It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today’s children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.”
—Marie Winn (20th century)
“These people figured video was the Lord’s preferred means of communicating, the screen itself a kind of perpetually burning bush. “He’s in the de-tails,” Sublett had said once. “You gotta watch for Him close.””
—William Gibson (b. 1948)