Instamatic Karma《列侬的另一半》

Instamatic Karma这本影集，里面的照片都摄于1973～1975年间。由当时列侬的女友May Pang（庞凤仪）拍摄的生活照。我第一次在杂志上看到介绍的时候就想，这个May Pang到底是什么人呢？

书的前言里写道，她作为列侬和洋子的私人助理，大概是从1970年到1980年这十年间。而她正式变成列侬的女友，则是在1973年的夏天。她自己是这么写的：

…as I was coordinating press for Yoko’s new album Feeling the Space – and simultaneously starting the sessions for John’s upcoming album Mind Games. Early one morning Yoko came to my office in their apartment at the Dakota and told me that she and John were “not getting along”. It was obvious to all of us who worked there that things were a bit tense between them so this wasn’t exactly a bombshell. Yoko went on to say that John would start seeing someone new and she wanted to be “someone who would treat John well.”….

..Yoko continued “You don’t have a boyfriend.” I dropped my pad and pen. I assureed here I wasn’t interested in John if that’s what she was thinking. She told me she knew that. But she didn’t stop there. “I think you should go out with him.”

于是这段奇怪的恋情就开始了。May当时24岁，小野洋子40岁，列侬33岁。根据May的说法，当她和列侬在一起的时候，他鼓励她用自己的尼康相机记录他们一起的生活和周围的朋友，随后又买了一台宝丽莱SX-70。这本影集里的照片都是在公寓、渡假时候的非工作的列侬。有大量的列侬做鬼脸、无所事事、和儿子Julian在一起，以及和新老朋友的影像。要说作用的话，就是还原了列侬走出披头的光环，作为一个新科老爸（他和Julian已经好几年没有在一起生活）以及恋人的身份。照片没有什么太多技巧可言，都是生活的瞬间，和家庭影集没什么区别。所以这里呈现的就是这样一个列侬。这里没有那个政治上激进的列侬，而只是一个随和地享受音乐和生活的30岁男子罢了。

原文：http://makzhou.warehouse333.com/2008/08/24/1491/