Clint Eastwood contemplates life—and the incoming Croisette scrum—in the back of a car. A sculptural-haired Grace Jones is captured mid-gossip. The Leningrad Cowboys, with their gravity-defying ’dos, ...
On Jan. 13, 1973, Derek Ridgers remembers pushing his way through the crowd at Eric Clapton’s Rainbow Concert, climbing over the fence and joining the press to photograph the rock legend. At the time, ...
Derek Ridgers spent 1977 deep in the back alleys of London, dodging flailing limbs and saliva in the city’s mosh pits in order to capture its then-exploding punk scene with a borrowed camera.
Photograph by Derek Ridgers, courtesy of IDEA No one could accuse the 100-or-so images in Cannes, published by IDEA, of being monotonous. Since the festival’s inception in 1946, the red carpet and ...
Photographer Derek Ridgers’ introduction to the Cannes Film Festival arrived in 1984, when he was commissioned to shoot the DJ and rapper Afrika Bambaataa — in town to promote his cameo in Stan Lathan ...
Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. Now in his early seventies, Ridgers’ fifty-year body of work has become instrumental in ...
Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. He would also visit fetish clubs, documenting Soho’s latex-clad underbelly. During this ...
Derek Ridgers – who has taken pictures of everyone from James Brown to Clint Eastwood – spent five years photographing skinheads in Britain between 1979 and 1984, documenting the controversial youth ...
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