{"id":5394,"date":"2012-03-16T03:16:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T10:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=5394"},"modified":"2012-03-16T07:30:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T14:30:05","slug":"frank-zappa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/03\/frank-zappa\/","title":{"rendered":"FRANK ZAPPA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"PHOTOGRAPHER NORMAN SEEFF ALREADY KNEW HE was dealing with a unique artist when Frank Zappa arrived at his L.A. studio for this 1976 session. \u201cFrank was very different from other people I photographed,\u201d recalls Seeff. \u201cMany artists are imaginative, but they aren\u2019t conceptual. Frank was both.\u201d Seeff remembers that Zappa seemed at first to be improvising, but soon made clear he had a direction in mind. \u201cWithout my telling him anything, he started picking up objects in the studio and striking these mock-serious poses,\u201d Seeff says. \u201cHe did some with a mop and some with the fan. He was acting out roles and ideas with an off-color sense of humor.\u201d Seeff caught the reflection of his lights in Zappa\u2019s sunglasses for a shot that eventually graced the cover of the compilation Strictly Commercial<\/em>. \u201cWhen I saw him doing that \u2018crazed-scientist\u2019 look, I told my assistant to angle the strobe so that it caught the umbrella,\u201d he explains. \u201cIt captures some of the mad-genius aspect of him.\u201d Seeff went on to do three more sessions with Zappa before the artist\u2019s death in 1993. \u201cI responded to his experimentation and his imagination,\u201d Seeff says. \u201cWe always came away with amazing images.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  PHOTOGRAPHER NORMAN SEEFF ALREADY KNEW HE was dealing with a unique artist when Frank Zappa arrived at his L.A. studio for this 1976 session. \u201cFrank was very different from other people I photographed,\u201d recalls Seeff. \u201cMany artists are imaginative, but they aren\u2019t conceptual. Frank was both.\u201d Seeff remembers that Zappa seemed at first to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1629,3262],"tags":[3278,2682,10166],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5394"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5443,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394\/revisions\/5443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}