Ep. 478 - Kevin Cummins
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Kevin Cummins has an international reputation as one of the world’s leading photographers and is famed for his iconic portraits of musicians including Ian Curtis, Bowie, The Smiths, Iggy Pop, Bjork, Debbie Harry, Bob Marley, Public Enemy, Patti Smith and Oasis. These photographs have appeared on magazine covers and in galleries and museums worldwide, including Brooklyn Museum, Sydney Opera House, and the Pace Gallery, His work is included in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery, V&A Museum and Manchester City Art Gallery. Kevin had a 20-year association with the NME, where he created many of the best-known images in modern music history. From the acting world he’s photographed Helen Mirren, Ralph Fiennes, Vanessa Redgrave, Stephen Graham, Gary Oldman, and Richard E. Grant. His work has appeared on over 500 magazine covers and he’s published many books documenting much of his own work with his latest, Oasis The Masterplan, being his sixteenth. It’s out in April but you can pre-order it now. It documents twelve months of seismic change at the start of their career through the photographs he took that cemented the identity of Oasis and helped to define the band. You can buy the book, here - https://www.waterstones.com/book/oasis-the-masterplan/kevin-cummins/9781788405683
Kevin Cummins is our guest in episode 478 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
Buy Oasis The Masterplan by Kevin Cummins, here - https://www.waterstones.com/book/oasis-the-masterplan/kevin-cummins/9781788405683
For everything Kevin Cummins, visit - http://www.kevincummins.co.uk
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| 1:00.1 | Smash it. Hello and welcome to my time capsule. My name's Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule. |
| 1:17.7 | And my time capsule is my podcast where I talk to people about five things from their life |
| 1:22.2 | that they choose to have in a time capsule. They pick four things that they really love, |
| 1:29.0 | and one thing they'd like to bury and forget. My guest in this episode is Kevin Cummins. Kevin is one of the world's leading |
| 1:36.5 | photographers. He's famed for his iconic portraits of musicians including Ian Curtis, David Bowie, |
| 1:43.1 | The Smiths, Iggy Pop, Bjork, Debbie Harry, Bob Marley, Public Enemy, Patty Smith and Oasis. |
| 1:50.5 | These photographs have appeared on magazine covers and in galleries and museums worldwide, including the Brooklyn Museum, Sydney Opera House and the Pace Gallery. |
| 2:00.7 | Its work is included in the permanent |
| 2:02.4 | collections of the National Portrait Gallery, the Victorian Album Museum and Manchester City Art Gallery. |
| 2:09.8 | Kevin has a 20-year association with the British Rock Bible New Musical Express, or the NME, |
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