HART@vtmath.math.vt.EDU ("Heath 552-3177", 703) (03/26/91)
Last week, someone asked about the pictures in the "This Woman's Work"
boxed set. I'm sorry it's taken me so long to get back on this, but
here they are: (By the way, this is from the CD set; I assume the
LP set has the same [but bigger *sigh*] pictures.)
p. 1: Kate has white makeup all over her face and *lots* of
dark eyeshadow. She's wearing a black sleeveless dress
with the strap over the right shoulder twisted.
The picture only shows from the chest up. This may have
been from a video, but I'm not sure which one.
p. 2: This is a picture from The Kick Inside. Kate's wearing
blue jeans and red red stockings and sitting in a small
wooden box.
p. 3: This one's strange. Kate's got her hair pulled back and
lying down with a piece of sheer brown material covering
her entirely. The material ripples and seems to "swirl"
about her.
p. 4: I've seen this one before, but I can't remember where.
Kate's facing 1/4 to her right, with a beautiful purple
and gold scarf around her neck and matching make-up.
The expression on her face is incredible, a kind of
somber longing. It's a sad picture but really well done.
p. 5: This is a picture from Babooshka. Kate's in black tights
with a veil over her face and she's leaning against an
upright bass violin.
p. 6: This is a picture from Cloudbusting. Kate's got her
hair cropped short and is standing against the weather
machine.
p. 7: A shoulders-up photo (bare shoulders, though) -- Kate's
wearing this 40's-ish black hat with a thin-mesh veil and
sequins all over it and feathers. The hat is pulled over
her right eye.
p. 8: I'd never seen this picture before, but if I had to guess
it might be from "There Goes a Tenner". It's a very
dark picture. Kate has a trenchcoat draped over her
right shoulder. Her left arm is bare and is reaching
across as if to conceal a gun under the trenchcoat.
p. 9: If you've seen the "Passing Through Air" bootleg, it's
the same picture on the cover of that. Kate's standing
about 1/3-left, but facing forwards. She's wearing a
black sleeveless shirt (again), a chain around her neck,
and a black pillbox hat with gold leafing on it and a
tassle. This is against a yellowish background that
looks like very out-of-focus leaves or something similar.
p. 10: Kate has really long hair in this photo. Her left hand
is on top of her head, and her right hand is on the side
of her head. She's pouting a little. Behind her is a
translucent window; outside are trees. It's daylight,
but it may well be raining outside.
p. 11: Kate's outside sitting on a rocky perch, holding a
set of bagpipes. (I think they're bagpipes. The
wind sack in under her left elbows.) The wind has
blown her hair around.
p. 12: Two pictures:
(top) This is from Experiment IV. It's Kate as the
"nymph"/"angel", just before everything turns ugly.
(bottom) Okay, maybe _this_ one's from "There Goes a
Tenner." Kate's wearing a leather jacket, and she's
flanked by two guys also dressed in black. Her hair's
a little greasy, she's wearing black eye-liner and rouge,
and her mouth is open like an "O", but defiant-looking.
p. 13: Two pictures:
(left) This is from The Big Sky. Near the end. Kate's
looking up and all these pilots and astronauts are
looking up with her.
(right) Kate's wearing a furry-lined bomber jacket, and
she's sitting on a cot (?) singing into a microphone.
Laying on the cot is an olive-skinned guy, looking off.
There are several red wires in the right side of the photo.
OK, I'm stumped.
p. 14: Kate's standing with one foot on a stool. She's wearing
leather boots, and holding a hat in her right hand.
She's wearing almost no makeup, and while that's a
refreshing change, she looks kind of washed out under the
camera lights.
p. 15: This is from Running Up That Hill. She's dancing with a
guy; they're both dressed in grey. They're facing away
from us, with arms outstretched. They're also quite some
distance away from the camera.
p. 16: Kate's sitting in a Chippendale-ish chair, in a bright
red robe. Her left elbow is on the arm rest, and her
chin is in her left hand.
p. 17: Kate's standing against a yellow brick wall, with her
hands clasped against her heart. She's wearing a black
shoulderless dress, and sunlight is shining in from the
right, casting a long shadow on the left side of the photo.
p. 18: Kate's dressed in dark grey velveteen, and is kneeling.
The floor and the wall are both speckled grey, and blend
so well that I can't tell where the corner is.
p. 19: This is from The Kick Inside. Kate's wearing that low-cut
pink leotard. Not one of my favorite photos.
p. 20: This is a full color print of the cover from The Dreaming.
p. 21: Kate's standing with her arms out from her side in an elegant
white gown, lit from behind, so you can see through the sleeves.
p. 22: Kate has a red bow in her hair and is wearing a kimono.
She's kneeling as if in meditation against the same
grey background in the picture on p. 18. She's wearing little
makeup again, but this photo looks better.
p. 23: Kate's bending over in a field. It's dusk, and the sky is
a great shade of blue. Kate's wearing a black and goldenrod
dress and a green shawl over her head. This is one of the
best-colored photos in the book.
p. 24: Three pictures of Kate superimposed. They're at 1/2-right,
front, 1/2-left. In the 1/2 right image, she's looking up,
and holding her arms up, as if receiving something from the
sky. In the 1/2 left image, she's handing it downwards
towards something else. _Very_ ethereal looking.
I hope this is a start towards what you wanted. They say a
picture is worth a thousand words, but dammit, these are pictures
of *KATE*, and ten thousand words still wouldn't do them justice.
__Heath
jburka@SILVER.UCS.INDIANA.EDU (Jeff Burka) (03/26/91)
heath writes: >p. 11: Kate's outside sitting on a rocky perch, holding a > set of bagpipes. (I think they're bagpipes. The > wind sack in under her left elbows.) The wind has > blown her hair around. Actually, they're uillean pipes. Uillean pipes don't really have windbag in quite the same way that bagpipes do. "Uillean" translates to elbow--there is a billow with strap that is put around one's arm. To get the air moving through the pipes, you just move your elbow up/down (or is that in/out? Whatever... ;-). The most obvious advantage to this is that the player can sing whilst playing. Assuming I've remembered everything correctly, this is info is taken from a description of the instrument given by Paddy Moloney at a Chieftains concert I went to a few years ago...in fact, it was the same month I bought my first KaTe album. >p. 13: Two pictures: > (right) Kate's wearing a furry-lined bomber jacket, and > she's sitting on a cot (?) singing into a microphone. > Laying on the cot is an olive-skinned guy, looking off. > There are several red wires in the right side of the photo. > OK, I'm stumped. This is from the "Oh England, My Lionheart" sequence of the Tour of Life. Jeff -- |Jeffrey C. Burka |"I've lost my way through this world of | |jburka@silver.ucs.indiana.edu | profanities/I thrive on the wind and | |jburka@amber.ucs.indiana.edu | the rain and the cold." --Happy Rhodes|
stevev@greylady.uoregon.EDU (Steve VanDevender) (03/26/91)
I can at least help Heath out with the picture on page 13 of the
box set booklet, which he describes thus:
(right) Kate's wearing a furry-lined bomber jacket, and
she's sitting on a cot (?) singing into a microphone.
Laying on the cot is an olive-skinned guy, looking off.
There are several red wires in the right side of the photo.
OK, I'm stumped.
This would appear to be a still from the performance of "Oh
England My Lionheart" in the _Kate Bush: Live at Hammersmith_
video.