Their 1st press photo

Triple X Records had just signed Jane’s Addiction; they needed a press photo stat. The next thing I knew, the band was at my studio, and I was grabbing set pieces to pull off this idea I had…

I shot this on a 4×5 camera, yeah, that high with a 4×5 film camera, not sure what I was thinking, but I loved what we all came up with. Sometimes fast & furious, off the cuff just works!

Needless to say, I was stoked to get the call because I had been following the band – going to a lot of their shows prior to the phone call; it was cool to meet them and have them in front of my camera (even though I picked an entirely overly laborious camera yo use for the session…

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Press session shot while the band was in LA late 1989, just before the release

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