hi, and thanks for our response.
yes, he did change, in England, the idea you could have more flexibility than with the medium and large format cameras. his use of 35mm cameras, using low asa film resulted in being able to move and photograph from different angles, without having to depend on the tripods. and of course, given the size of the fashion rags, produced excellent results for publication.

hah! you've a copy of a great documentary film. i can't imagine very many copies out there. a lot of fun. Zeferelli did base David Hemming's character in Blow-Up on David Bailey. it was an amusing caricature, especially the legendary scene of him photographing Verushka. i'm glad you still treasure it. i treasure the scene in the movie where the Yardbirds are performing in a small club.

here in the United States, sales of nikon f bodies with the 105mm f2.5 lenses simply boomed, and everybody wanted to photograph their models half naked lying down. there was a lot of "cameras as sex objects" in those days among my contemporaries. me, being a geek, only wanted to make pictures of my friends. those i still treasure.

as a further aside, the whole "swinging London" thing was confined to a couple of streets. the rest of London, and England, was still pretty much a bombed out nation, even in the early 60's trying to recover from the second world war. very grey and grim. rationing for some items (meat) was still in effect. i still remember the lack of any kind of central heating at Cambridge University. cold, dank and damp.