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Derek Ridgers (born 20 October 1952), is an English photographer with a career spanning over thirty years. He is best known for his photography of music, film and club/street culture – photographing people such as James Brown, The Spice Girls, Clint Eastwood and Johnny Depp – as well as politicians (Tony Blair), gangsters ('Mad' Frankie Fraser), artists (Julian Schnabel), writers (Martin Amis), fashion designers (Vivien Westwood) and sports people (Tiger Woods). Ridgers has also photographed British social scenes such as skinhead, fetish, club, punk and New Romantics. Ridgers has worked for ''Time Out, The Sunday Telegraph, NME,〔https://archivedmusicpress.wordpress.com/tag/derek-ridgers/〕〔http://soniceditions.com/gallery/nme〕 The Face, Loaded,〔http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/james-brown-the-latest-edition-1234041.html〕〔http://soniceditions.com/image/shaun-ryder 〕 The Independent on Sunday'',〔 ''The Guardian'', ''The Observer'',〔http://shapersofthe80s.com/tag/london/ 〕 ''The Sunday Times'', ''The Independent'', ''GQ'', ''GQ Style'', ''Melody Maker'' and ''Sounds''.〔() 〕 == Early life == Born in Chiswick, West London, Derek Ridgers trained as a graphic artist at Ealing School of Art 1967–71,〔Biography of Ridgers, in Val Williams and Susan Bright, ''How We Are: Photographing Britain, from the 1840s to the Present'' (London: Tate, 2007; ISBN 978-1-85437-7142), p.219.〕 and where one of his fellow students was Freddie Mercury. Ridgers's love of music led him to attend many live events of the time, one of which was The 14 Hour Technicolour Dream. Following art school, Ridgers went into advertising, where he worked as an art director for ten years.〔 One of his clients was a camera company and he picked up the product and gave it a try. When he parted with the agency he decided to take up photography. One of the first concerts at which he took photos was by Ron Wood, Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend at the Finsbury Park Rainbow, 13 January 1973. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Derek Ridgers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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