8 hours with Taylor Swift
It looks like Taylor Swift is debuting more than just a new sound, she’s also debuting a new, mature look.
The singer teamed up with famed photog Nigel Barker for 8 Hours/Taylor Swift, a limited edition photo book that captures the crooner’s various sides: casual, Hollywood glam and and performer-chic. According to Sony, 8 Hours promises to be “one the most extensive photo collections of Swift published to date.” (You know, not counting the posters on your wall).
When we caught up with Barker at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show red carpet last night, he said he was surprised by Swift’s sultry side. “She’s not necessarily known for her sex appeal,” Barker told EW. “But she is someone who is emerging in a way that I’ve never seen.”
Barker spent a day (or, you know, 8 Hours) shooting the star on location in Southern California. “You’ll see her transform from a young girl into this rock and roll superstar, totally in your face,” he explained. “It’s unbelievable how she’s changed and of course how the music is changing and evolving. She’s one to watch.”
About 10 copies of the book signed by Swift and Barker will be auctioned off on eBay by Sony, with all proceeds benefiting the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Fans can also get the book by purchasing a Sony Alpha DSLR or NEX camera at a Sony stores nationwide, while supplies last.
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Nigel Barker fotograferar Taylor för SONY
When Artisan of Imagery Nigel Barker was asked to shoot pop and country superstar Taylor Swift for an upcoming Sony ad campaign, he responded, “Yes, but I want to make it something bigger than just a photo shoot.” After all, Taylor Swift is a 6-time Grammy winner that has been chosen Billboard Woman of the Year, American Music Awards Artist of the Year, and the Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music’s Entertainer of the Year. It seemed only fitting that a superstar like Taylor be captured during the 2-day shoot with Sony’s newest cameras, including the flagship A99.
Day 1 was Nigel’s first opportunity to work with Taylor and the A99. “The concept was to capture Taylor going about her everyday life with the new Sony cameras,” says Nigel. “We had the RX100, the NEX-5R and a few others. She knew just how to use each one of them. It was amazing.
“Taylor loved that she could upload photos right from the 5R. After all, she’s a famous singer with a huge social media following that loves to share with her fans. We bonded immediately over our passion for photography and technology. And that made for a truly special day.”
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NPR intervju
Once touted as a teen idol and a genre sensation, Taylor Swift is neither of those things today: At 22, she has become one of the biggest commercial forces in all of pop music. Her latest album,Red, sold 1.2 million copies in its first week — the highest such sales total in a decade. She spoke with NPR's Guy Raz about success, setbacks and why, in a career that began at 14, so many of her songs have dealt in love and heartbreak. Hear the radio version at the audio link on this page, and read more of their conversation below.
GUY RAZ: You quote the poet Pablo Neruda right on the first pageof the liner notes. The line is, "Love is so short, forgetting is so long." And it seems like that line sort of sets the theme for this record.
TAYLOR SWIFT: It really does. When I read that line, I absolutely connected to it. I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.
You write the vast majority of your songs, and a lot of your themes are about love or love lost and heartbreak. I sometimes wonder whether you date a lot of jerks.
[Laughs.] I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back. My first album is the diary of when I was 14, 15, 16. My second album, Fearless, was from 16 to 18, and so on, and so on. So you have my life being recorded in journal entries from these two-year periods of my life since I was 16. I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into. I've never missed two people the same way — it's always different for me. I've never fallen in love with someone and had the same exact kind of feeling come over me. So I think that there are all these different mixtures of emotions that go into individual feelings that you feel for individual people. And, yeah, most of the time it doesn't work out.
That's the thing with love: It's going to be wrong until it's right. So you experience these different shades of wrong, and you miss the good things about those people, and you regret not seeing the red flags for the bad things about those people, but it's all a learning process. And being 22, you're kind of in a crash course with love and life and lessons and learning the hard way, and thankfully, I've been able to write about those emotions as they've affected me.
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Taylor är aktuell med den nya parfymen Incredible Things. Parfymen finns sedand den 1/12 -14 på Kicks. Ni kan även hitta de tidigare parfymerna Wonderstruck, Wonderstruck Enchanted och Taylor by Taylor Swift hos ett antal återförsäljare runt om i landet.
