“The book is my Instagram” – legendary photographer Albert Watson on the evoluition of …

Albert Watson’s new photobook, Kaos, encompasses fifty years of eclectic work. Equally a photographer of fashion, celebrities, and models, as well as landscapes, still lifes, and documentary, his career spans a wide range of genres. Beginning with the iconic portrait of director Alfred Hitchcock holding a plucked goose, he is one of the few living photographers whose name is often said in the same breath as true contemporaries Richard Avedon and Irving Penn. Born in Edinburgh, Watson studied graphic design at university, not photography. It is this basis in design that Watson has always claimed as the most influential on his photographic work. He then spent many influential years in London and Los Angeles during the 1960s and 1970s. Settling in New York in the mid-1970s, he began an illustrious career that has included over one hundred covers of Vogue, as well as some of the most iconic portraits of our time. We spoke to Watson about putting together Kaos, his years in London and LA, and what makes a good magazine cover. Barry Pierce: In your own words, could you tell me about Kaos ? Albert Watson: Well, I’ve always liked the title, because one of the problems I’ve
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