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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Tom May

What does it take to take a truly great celebrity portrait? From shooting Amy Winehouse to Yoko Ono, photographer Jillian Edelstein has spent a career finding out

Three portraits: a woman with short dark hair and glasses crosses her arms; a woman with curly orange hair and small horns looks up; a black-and-white image of a woman lighting a cigarette.

There's a photograph of Vivienne Westwood above that I absolutely love. Shot by Jillian Edelstein, it shows the late fashion designer in close-up: flame-orange hair wild against a warm brown background, two small silver horns tucked into her curls, her expression somewhere between mischief and defiance.

It's funny, strange and tells you more about her in a single frame than most interviews managed in an hour. It's also, technically speaking, a celebrity portrait, but it has little in common with what that phrase usually implies.

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