, and others. He also worked on album covers like this one for Cyndi Lauper’s A Night To Remember.First things, first, let’s talk about gear. To me, one of the fascinating aspects of learning the history of any photo is what it was taken with. What camera? What lens? What film?
Armed with his Hasselblad, fisheye, and a bagful of Fujichrome, Simons set off on his bicycle around Manhattan at sunset and at night over the course of a week in what was likely the late summer or early fall of 1989. “NYC was a free for all. I just rode my bike around and laid in the street, trying not to get run over.”Now in case it wasn’t obvious, the Ninja Turtles were not shot on location.
The Empire State Building in the background is around 38th and 5th and the buildings are at 6th avenue around 44th, 46th, and 52nd Street looking north, then flipped for the other side. “I got paid a studio day for the heads, and costs of film and I billed like four days and made about $2,000,” the photographer says. “No contract and they owned everything, and I never made another penny.”
“Anyone that made jokes about their ideas, or the assignments, or casting, was excommunicated. I am a comedian, so I have been blacklisted since 2000.”
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