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Samuel Beckett smoking a French cigarette: John Haynes's best photograph

by Interview By Stuart Jeffries

'One day, I was summoned to a pub near the Royal Court theatre where Samuel Beckett was looking at my work. "These are wonderful pictures," he said' I knew Samuel Beckett's reputation. He didn't like photographers. He didn't want them around really. It's hard to believe I took so many photographs of him. During the 1970s, I photographed him and his rehearsals at the Royal Court theatre in London, and eventually did a…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 9:12am on November 29, 2024