Obsessed with the prospect of of having unwittingly captured a capital crime on camera, Thomas rephotographs his enlargement on slide film, and keeps looking closer. A few frames later, he discovers what could quite possibly be the lifeless body of a corpse. Scrutinizing his ‘blow-ups,’ Thomas finds what appears to him to be a man in the bushes with a pistol. He locks himself in his darkroom later to develop and enlarge the negatives. He replies with our opening quote to defuse the situation. The act provokes intense anxiety in the woman being pictured, played by Vanessa Redgrave, who demands to see the image and attempts to snatch his camera. After moonlighting, quite literally, spending nights snapping stealthy frames in a homeless shelter, Thomas comes upon a couple embracing in Maryon Park, and kneels to capture a candid moment. Despite his success and the hedonistic rewards that come with it, Thomas grows increasingly bored of his commercial work and drawn ever more to the social documentary potential of photography, to reportage and street shooting.
A distant dream for photographers today, he drives a Rolls Royce through the city, and has young aspiring models stalking him to have their picture taken. Played by David Hemmings, Thomas is a hip, brash fashion shooter in London’s ‘Swinging Sixties,’ an era when British lensmen dominated and reinvigorated glossy model spreads in magazines. I’m a photographer,” says Thomas, the protagonist of Michelangelo Antonioni’s cult classic and best box office-grossing 1966 film “Blow-Up.” – A Warner Bros Entertainment Company-Courtesy Philippe Garne – A Warner Bros Entertainment Company-Courtesy Philippe Garner Swingeing London III, 1972 by Richard Hamilton Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Ankauf/Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, Zürich, Jean-Pierre Kuhn Jane Birkin, 1960s by Brian Duffy Brian Duffy David Hemmings in Blow Up (Regie: Michelangelo Antonioni), 1966 by Arthur Evans Neue Visionen Filmverleih GmbH/Turner Entertainment Co. – A Warner Bros Entertainment Company-Courtesy Philippe Garne Thomas’ blow-ups aus dem Park, 1966 by Don McCullin Neue Visionen Filmverleih GmbH/Turner Entertainment Co. – A Warner Bros Entertainment Company-Courtesy Philippe Garne Brian Epstein (Box of Pin-Ups), 1965 by David Bailey V&A Images/Victoria and Albert Museum Grace and Telma, Italienische Vogue, 1966 by Eric Swayne Courtesy Tom Swayne David Bailey photographing Moyra Swan, 1965 by Terry O ́Neill Courtesy Philippe Garner Down-and-out begging for help, Aldgate, 1963 by Don McCullin Don McCullin-Courtesy Hamiltons Gallery, London Donyale Luna am Set von Blow-Up, 1966 by David Montgomery David Montgomery David Hemmings in Blow Up (Regie: Michelangelo Antonioni), 1966 by Arthur Evans Neue Visionen Filmverleih GmbH/Turner Entertainment Co. – A Warner Bros Entertainment Company-Courtesy Philippe Garne David Hemmings in Blow Up (Regie: Michelangelo Antonioni), 1966 by Arthur Evans Neue Visionen Filmverleih GmbH/Turner Entertainment Co. – A Warner Bros Entertainment Company-Courtesy Philippe Garne Models in Blow-Up (Regie: Michelangelo Antonioni), 1966 by Arthur Evans Neue Visionen Filmverleih GmbH/Turner Entertainment Co. David Hemmings und Veruschka von Lehndorff in Blow-Up (Regie: Michelangelo Antonioni), 1966 by Tazio Secchiaroli Neue Visionen Filmverleih GmbH/Turner Entertainment Co.
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