'Ossie Clark Plane Crash 1969', photographed by Jim Lee in 1969, possibly in England, printed by Martin Clark at the RCA, London, 2006.

Colour fashion photograph by Jim Lee showing model wearing an Ossie Clark dress standing in a field with a crashed plane in the background. The camera used was a Nikon F with a 200mm telephoto lens which compresses the elements of the image together so it appears that the woman is walking away from the plane having just survived the crash.

Given by Jim Lee

This image was initially photographed by Jim Lee for an Ossie Clark poster of a Celia Birtwell print called the ' Target ' print. This was one of only four images taken.

Jim Lee established himself as a leading international photographer based in London, Paris, Milan and New York, shooting for such clients as Valentino, Alexander McQueen, Versace and Yves Saint Laurent. His great breakthrough was meeting the diva of fashion editors, Anna Wintour, at that time the assistant fashion editor at Harpers and Queen, who he regularly collaborated with to produce some of his best work, which continued years later after they both moved to New York. Central to his work is the concept of telling stories which he creates using casts of three or three hundred and extraordinary locations and props. He has recently re-emerged as an active photographer working on numerous magazine editorials with top fashion stylists.

Jim Lee has recently moved seamlessly into directing TV commercials, his first film was for Levi's followed by several fashion and beauty commercials. In 2003/4 he had six photographs showing in the Ossie Clark retrospective at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Printed from the original negatives by a student of the Royal College of Art, London.

This image was initially photographed for an Ossie Clark poster of a Celia Birtwell print called the ‘ Target ’. This was one of only four images taken. Jim Lee has explained that the idea behind the image was to make it look as if the woman had crashed the plane, got out of it and simply walked away unscathed. During this shoot however the man who was detonating the explosion used an iron bar to hold down the detonator but by the fourth attempt the bar had heated up which actually set off the last explosion too soon and he was very badly burnt.

E.14-2006