Mixtape Love: Outtakes, pt. 3 with the Coathangers
I felt a little weird about using the hearse as a backdrop — especially when one of the Coathangers showed up wearing an O. J. Simpson t-shirt — but I liked how it produced an eerie, edgy vibe.
The original idea for the Coathangers shoot was to photograph them in a junkyard. I always wanted to do a shoot in a junkyard and the Coathangers seemed like they would contrast well with that setting.-
I stopped by three different car junkyards to see if we could shoot there and I got rejected at all three. One asked me for money, one denied me for &-;liability reasons” and the third just said “NO!”-
I ended up finding some equally gritty locations, but perhaps they were too gritty. ‘Cause before we could even set-up to take a picture at the first location we started getting hounded by people asking us for money or making comments about the pretty girls in tattoos. The Coathangers were obviously uncomfortable. So we only got to shoot briefly at two of the locations before bailing to more comfortable surroundings.-
Nevertheless, one of those gritty locations - in front of a white hearse - produced the image we decided to use in CL’s print version (although it got cut due to space). I felt a little weird about using the hearse as a backdrop - especially when one of the Coathangers showed up wearing an O. J. Simpson t-shirt - but I liked how it produced an eerie, edgy vibe.-