![]() I've since heard that when the guy in Cleveland got the pictures, he went, "First of all, where's the bikini?" He told me he wasn't ever gonna pay me, because he hated the pictures. She told me later that she had picked out her top two favorites and marked them on the slides. I went back over to her house, and I showed her all the pictures. When I saw the film processed, I knew we'd gotten it somewhere in these 36 frames, there's a poster. I just put her in a spot and asked her to turn it on. But it was a spontaneous, happy intersection of coincidence. I'd like to make it sound like it was all planned. I had an Indian blanket from Mexico that served as the seat cover for my beat-up 1937 Chevy pickup with colors that, it just popped into my head, would match the suit. She went in to look around and came out of the back door and stood in the doorway in this red suit, and she said in her Southern accent, "Well, is this anything?" And I literally said to myself, "Oh my God." I knew that was it. I said, "Farrah, are you sure you don't have a bikini? Something different?" By now we're running out of backgrounds we used the swimming pool, etc. She's a beautiful woman, but there wasn't anything that I would put on a poster. I shot rolls of film, and it just wasn't happening. So she would go in the house and come out in a swimsuit and say, "What do you think of this?" Any photographer will tell you that when you're given an assignment, it's like going fishing you know when you got the pictures, and you know when you missed them. It was just me and Farrah and my Nikon, at the home she shared with Lee Majors, a house on Mulholland Drive overlooking Hollywood, with a beautiful view.įarrah didn't like the way she looked in a bikini and didn't have one on her. It was before the days where you had to have stylists and hair and makeup and background art directors and assistants. Like any photo shoot, we did a lot of different stuff. Farrah had made a deal in which she had control of the image she got to pick the picture and kill everything that wasn't used and this guy said, "I've hired two photographers, had two photo shoots, spent all this money, and she hates the pictures. My understanding is that the other two turned him down. ![]() I did some headshots for her and was sent by Fox to shoot photographs for the pilot of Charlie's Angels.Ī few months later I got a call from a guy in Cleveland, who said, "Farrah insisted I call you." He had solicited all the Angels to do a poster in a bikini, which he would sell and give the star a percentage of the profits. I became friends with her through Lee Majors from The Six Million Dollar Man, whom she was dating. At the time, I was shooting stills for ABC. She had no idea that she was that good-looking. She was just beautiful in a really innocent way. She was from Texas, and when I met her, she still had her little Texas accent. ![]() (See pictures of Fawcett's career.)įarrah was a good friend. He tells TIME how an innocuous photo shoot in which Fawcett posed at her Hollywood home in a red swimsuit resulted in the 1976 poster that wound up plastered on millions of bedroom walls. Follow a photographer, snapped the image that made Farrah Fawcett an icon.
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