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"Vanity Fair's Oscar Night Party"
17.09.05
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The Saturday Times Magazine
PHOTOGRAPHER DAFYDD
JONES
YEAR 1997
LOCATION LOS ANGELES
“I love this picture,” says Dafydd Jones, who went to photograph
the Vanity Fair Oscar Night Party in 1997. “It was such a good sequence
of events . First Mick Jagger was sitting by himself looking bored, and
then I saw Madonna cross the room and sit down next to him. She started
talking and he became quite animated. Then Tony Curtis came along and
sat down at the same table and started monopolising Madonna. Jagger was
laughing when he saw Curtis coming up. I guess he knew he would take over
Madonna and he would be left on his own again.”
Jones has photographed thousands of parties and knows the psychology of
the manoeuvrings that go on. “Some people do get miserable at parties
if they’re left on their own, but Jagger didn’t seem to mind
too much. He was in Hollywood because he’d just bought the film rights
to Enigma. He seemed quite happy just watching other people at the party.”
Vanity Fair holds its party en route to many of the other post-Academy
Awards parties and is able to ambush famous people on their way. That
night they caught Bette Midler, Muhammad Ali, Marianne Faithfull, Gabriel
Byrne and many others in their net. “I was pleased when I took that
picture because it’s different from the bog-standard picture of people
grinning. Unfortunatly Vanity Fair didn’t publish it which was one
of the reasons I left the magazine. I love this picture because it tells
a story.”
JOANNA PITMAN
