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“The key to my work is to try and create an image that the artist can live with, that works for them, that promotes them, that is true to them,” he tells the Standard.
He puts his remarkable access and images down to the fact he was a similar age and “the opposite of a Fleet Street photographer…I was very young, rebellious, trying to rock the boat and change the way we saw musicians.
He was younger than all of us, and Mitch Mitchell trying to look hard, just broke us up.
The still spritely and hard-working Mankowitz helped form the Sixties and tells us he was always destined to work in showbusiness.