As a new zine of previously unpublished photographs of Björk is released, Spike Jonze talks about shooting the Icelandic musician on the cusp of stardom, and the lost mystique of Chateau Marmont
HL: She’s otherworldly. SJ: So otherworldly, yeah. She was just roaming around the Chateau. If you’re at any other fancy hotel nowadays, within five minutes of shooting photos, the security would be there. And nobody cared at this time. I don’t even know if they even had a security guard. HL: I feel like looking at all the contact sheets I live through the day with you and her because I saw the sequence of the day.� SJ: I’ve never really gone back to look at them.
But it’s very easy to shoot photos of someone when they’re compelling, when they’re imaginative, when they lack any self consciousness and when they’re as singular and original as her. Really, I almost can’t even take credit for any photos being good because they’re just ... I think sometimes if you’re shooting photos of someone that doesn’t know how to be in front of the camera or play or just create something with you, then it’s hard. But this was just her.
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