{"id":759,"date":"2026-08-04T15:18:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/2026\/08\/04\/photographer-gered-mankowitz-recalls-suggesting-a-new-look-for-kate-bush-and-how-it-transformed-her-image-exclusive\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:18:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:18:55","slug":"photographer-gered-mankowitz-recalls-suggesting-a-new-look-for-kate-bush-and-how-it-transformed-her-image-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/2026\/08\/04\/photographer-gered-mankowitz-recalls-suggesting-a-new-look-for-kate-bush-and-how-it-transformed-her-image-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer Gered Mankowitz Recalls Suggesting a New Look for Kate Bush and How It Transformed Her Image (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mankowitz saw the core of Bush\u2019s performance persona and brought it to the forefront visually<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/mQsTzqrm4W1Ts7Tayag6Kc1Idbo=\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(jpeg)\/Kate-BushThe-Kick-Inside-da37785b648640b79f22bf455a0e1286.jpg\" alt=\"Cover variations for Kate Bush\u2019s debut album. \u2018The Kick Inside\u2019\" title=\"Kate Bush The Kick Inside\" \/><figcaption><i>Cover variations for Kate Bush\u2019s debut album. \u2018The Kick Inside\u2019<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Gered Mankowitz began his career as a photographer in the 1960s, going on to work with the likes of the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Eurythmics and more <\/li>\n<li>Mankowitz tells PEOPLE about working with Kate Bush in the early days of her career and what he saw in her as she prepared to unleash her debut single, \u201cWuthering Heights\u201d<\/li>\n<li>He recalls the artist as being a \u201cwonderful\u201d but \u201cquite exhausting\u201d force of nature on the precipice of her career truly taking off<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A photographer\u2019s vision for <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/where-is-kate-bush-now-11687827\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Kate Bush<\/a> helped solidify her style as she made her musical debut.<\/p>\n<p>Gered Mankowitz was well into his career in music photography when he was brought into the \u201cRunning Up That Hill\u201d star\u2019s world in the late \u201870s as she prepared to unleash her debut single, \u201cWuthering Heights.\u201d Nearly five decades after their first collaboration, Bush is among the many subjects in <a href=\"https:\/\/barnesandnoble.sjv.io\/c\/249354\/1841124\/22009?subId1=12025248%7C%7C%7C%7Csyndication&amp;subId3=&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.barnesandnoble.com%2Fw%2Fgered-mankowitz-gered-mankowitz%2F1148560329%3Fean%3D9781788843546\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noskim\"><em>Gered Mankowitz: Photographs<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> a retrospective covering\u00a065 years of the photographer\u2019s work\u00a0from 1960 to 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to PEOPLE about the photo book by ACC Art Books, Mankowitz reflects on his experience with Bush.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was brought in because the record company didn\u2019t have an image that they could really promote Kate with. They had an album sleeve already done. They had a video of \u2018Wuthering Heights,\u2019 but they didn\u2019t have an image and they desperately needed an image,\u201d he recalls.<\/p>\n<p>The record company asked Mankowitz to assess what they already had and come up with a look for the artist. After he watched the video for \u201cWuthering Heights,\u201d he remembers, \u201cThe song blew me away, and the video was sort of an extraordinary experience, both audio and visual.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cI realized that dance and movement were absolutely integral to her performance and clearly very important to her. So I proposed that we photograph her in dancer\u2019s rehearsal clothes, which I\u2019d always liked, I always thought [they] were very attractive, were funky and interesting. I thought that by putting her in a leotard, it would reflect this movement, balletic sort of background element. And it just paid off,\u201d he continues.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting the artist was a \u201cwonderful, quite exhausting\u201d experience for Mankowitz, who remembers her most as \u201cvery frenetic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer energy levels were absolutely amazing. At the end of a shoot, she\u2019d fly out of the studio after whatever it was, seven, eight hours, and I\u2019d be like an old washed-up rag lying on the sofa. And I\u2019d say to my assistant, \u2018Did we get anything?\u2019 And he\u2019d say, \u2018Well, you shot 37 rolls of film, so I think we did,\u2019 \u201d he shares with a laugh.<\/p>\n<p>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\">PEOPLE\u2019s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/Z5tziKOlaYZxFFDKQ3f4lGEFA4Y=\/fit-in\/640x480\/KateBushJapaneseTheKickInside-f9ef941f90bf497295678c7b263c5bde.jpg\" alt=\"Kate Bush\u2019s \u2018The Kick Inside\u2019 album cover\" title=\"Kate Bush The Kick Inside Japanese Version\" \/><figcaption><i>Kate Bush\u2019s \u2018The Kick Inside\u2019 album cover<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Leotards became a recurring element in their collaborations, which included several sessions and the U.S. cover for her first album, <em>The Kick Inside<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I did four or five sessions with Kate. I worked throughout that first year and I did the American cover for her first album, <em>The Kick Inside<\/em>, because the American record company didn\u2019t want to use the U.K. cover because they couldn\u2019t work with that image. So it was a very fantastic collaboration,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Mankowitz concludes, \u201cWe\u2019d do so much work and we\u2019d get so much, but she was always moving. She was an amazing subject, an incredibly beautiful woman. I loved working with her and was thrilled that I was part of that first year, that initial success, the first tour. It was an extraordinary experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/barnesandnoble.sjv.io\/c\/249354\/1841124\/22009?subId1=12025248%7C%7C%7C%7Csyndication&amp;subId3=&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.barnesandnoble.com%2Fw%2Fgered-mankowitz-gered-mankowitz%2F1148560329%3Fean%3D9781788843546\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noskim\"><em>Gered Mankowitz: Photographs<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>from ACC Art Books is now available, wherever books are sold.<\/p>\n<p><em>We independently evaluate all recommended products and services. If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mankowitz saw the core of Bush\u2019s performance persona and brought it to the forefront visually Cover variations for Kate Bush\u2019s debut album. \u2018The Kick Inside\u2019 NEED TO KNOW Gered Mankowitz began his career as a photographer in the 1960s, going on to work with the likes of the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Eurythmics and more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else"],"wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"1":{"name":"Everything Else","link":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/category\/everything-else\/"}},"tags_names":[],"comments_number":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}