![]() Do you remember Index magazine? Index launched a bunch of photographers like Juergen Teller and Ryan McGinley. That style of photography was also the way a lot of photographers liked to shoot back then. “There wasn’t much, much of a place to shoot them back then,” Soter says. Backstage, he snapped this picture of singer-guitarist Luke Jenner. In June 2003, Rolling Stone asked Soter to photograph a Rapture concert at New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom. So I’m sure somebody who had a very good sense of humor grabbed the stamp out of boredom and gave Ashton a nice tattoo.” So they would stamp a lot of promos and things like that with the lightning bolts and the DFA logo. They had a whole box of stamps there because their ethos when they were getting started was DIY. “That DFA logo on his stomach is a DFA stamp. “I also liked that they blacked out eyes,” he continues. “Do you think anybody’s going to be on a Rolling Stone cover smoking a cigarette again? I highly doubt it. “I love this photo, it obviously puts a very specific date on what the time period is,” Soter says of this shot, taken in the DFA office on May 15, 2003. DFA Gives ‘Rolling Stone’ the Stamp of Approval.This is what rock photography looks like to me.” You just have to pump up your film speed. It reminds me of the rock photographers that I like that had to use only the available light because nobody wants a flash going off. It’s one that I think you could blow up nice and large and live with on your wall, and it doesn’t look like any of the other photos. It worked so well that I got three out of five LCD Soundsystem members in this photo. “I used a drag shutter, just letting all of that ambient stage light in. “That’s, like, a classic rock photography photo,” Soter says. ![]() LCD Soundsystem jumped into the fire at the Bowery Ballroom on October 9, 2003. Britney Spears and a whole lot of pop acts, who, as that label started getting really hot, thought, ‘Yeah, we want the DFA sound.’ I think Simon Le Bon was one of those who was like, ‘Yeah, make my album cool.'” “Back then, James was bragging along those lines. “I think Simon Le Bon was there to try and court them to do production for a Duran Duran album,” he continues. “So that’s what it takes: It takes a frontman from Duran Duran to show up to get James to smile. “It was a rare opportunity, now that I think about it, to have James smiling,” Soter says. LCD Soundsystem’s Phil Mossman, Nancy Whang, and James Murphy share smiles with Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon in Bowery Ballroom’s green room on October 9, 2003.
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