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#princecelebration2022 Launch Party twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Q&A with Robert Whitman now! He's giving his origin story of becoming a photographer. He was just starting out and was helping test out photography equipment for a local store.
He felt he didn't really know what he was doing with the follow on work he did but kept getting work. Traveled around the world building his portfolio.
What led him to Prince : Gary Levinson told him to listen to a tape. He listened to it in the car (while stoned 😂). The song they listened to was soft and wet. Gary took him to the recording studio and he met Prince.
Manager asked if he could do pictures of Prince for a press kit. "mainly because they knew they didn't have to pay me very much".
Did 3 shoots. Used wide angle lens for the first time. Got great shoots of Prince. Image
Street shots are from around the corner. P was shy Robert said "Make love to the Camera" to get him to move. Image
"You can tell he had a great body and a great butt"
Audience question : Do we know who the lady is in the picture? "somebody's mother" Image
Who dressed Prince?

"No stylist, no makeup artist. It was just him and me." Image
What's your plan for the NFT space?

He doesn't want to comment on this at this time.
How long did the shoot take and what on the record conversations did you have?

Didn't have long conversations. Shot 3 afternoons. Music wall, studio, manager's house. ImageImageImage
Re music wall construction. Out of our control but we still have this Image
Spike Lee wrote forward to Robert Whitman's book. njgstudio.com/book/prince-pr… Image
Advice for someonr who wants to get more in to photography: Follow your heart. Photography teaches you how to see.
Dr. Fink has been acknowledged. He drove him to these photo sessions. Image
And we're done! 💜 Image
Prince photographers! Robert Whitman and Steve Parke! 🥰 Image
💜💜💜 Image
Donna Gregory! Makeup artist for P! Image
Creeping on Sonny T 👀 Image
Not a creep pic. With Sonny T! Image
From across the pond! @CaseyRain @kimcamilia of @RealityIsViolet Image
TDK! ImageImageImage
💜💜💜
The VIP gift! Will probably be used for the rest of the Celebration. 🥲 Image
Party complete! Lights up! See you in the morning! 💜💜💜
Recap of the party! 💜
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Oct 15
From Paid in Full: The Battle for Black Music. Highly recommend this 3-part doc. #Prince was part of a legacy of many who came before him working for the same cause in the rights of artists, and specifically Black artists. Was really cool to see in the context of that history.
This documentary was done by Idris and Sabrina Elba and it was extremely well done. Check for it for free in the BBC iPlayer or on CBC in Canada. It hasn't come out yet with an American distributor.
I am not going to clip his entire segment though it was only about 5 minutes of a 3-hour documentary. I think it's important to see it in context with this full work. Paid in full the battle for black music poster
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Sep 9
I'm just going to say, don't look to other people to tell you what your opinion should be about anything. Whatever you feel is valid because that's how you relate to it.
All this talk and meanwhile the music is getting lost which is exactly what I warned about in the first place. Gimme Glam Slam as a franchise, Paisley as a studio, the musical process, the evolution of how he approached business...but nope headlines off the messy stuff...
Again. This.

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Sep 6
We're going to do a few of these decades... If y'all don't know these songs get familiar! #Prince
I love how I chose different songs for this not on purpose...

I really hope the casual fans know these songs at least! 😭

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Sep 4
See what happens when we cross post with other fandoms? The first peak was business in our fam, the last 2 were just me posting about going to DragonCon, live tweeting an Acolyte panel and my picture with Manny Jacinto. Around 30k impressions off of 2 main posts. 🧵
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I've been on one about helping people learn about Prince in a multitude of ways. We need more carrots! Lots of people noted my necklace with his symbol, I swapped my DragonCon lanyard out for a Prince one, gave out Prince pins....
Purposely wore his symbol in my Manny picture. Across all my social media this picture was seen at least 13,000 times.

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Sep 3
Chatting with folks about doing a group Prince cosplay next year. You can apply to host workshops, panels, and be a vendor as well. This also happens during the same weekend as the annual Lovesexy party. Con tickets are discounted right now. 5 days $100.

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It's legit a fan run convention to celebrate whatever you're a fan of. Space for every niche! Prince needs to be represented here more for sure I saw him all over the vendor area with bootleg merch, lol.


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I'll be talking about it more as the deadlines approach. While this is not necessarily focused on Prince like our celebration would be, it is absolutely an opportunity to expose him to people because most people who go to stuff like this know who he is. (Someone handed me this.) Image
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Aug 18
It was a pleasure to compile how we celebrate anniversaries of Prince's legacy. #Come30 is an extremely relevant era of #Prince's life that applies to what's going on in the industry and in society now, just like 2 other albums that have 10 year anniversaries next month. 🧵 Image
At the first post transition celebration at @PaisleyPark, Damaris Lewis said we, as fam, are ALL stewards of Prince's legacy. We should look to each other to make sure his legacy is accessible in the multiple dimensions of how we experience his life work.
Extra special thanks to folks like @polishedsolid who gather scholars and fam in her offering of a safe space for people to speak with passion and intelligence about our hero.

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