{"id":158031,"date":"2020-08-26T15:39:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T13:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/08\/26\/jj-gonsons-best-photograph-a-smile-from-elliott-smith\/"},"modified":"2020-08-26T15:39:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T13:39:05","slug":"jj-gonsons-best-photograph-a-smile-from-elliott-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=158031","title":{"rendered":"JJ Gonson&#039;s best photograph: a smile from Elliott Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018There was this cult of personality around him \u2013 the dark, tortured figure \u2013 but this shows the tip of the hat, the sideways glance: that\u2019s the actual person\u2019 In 1985, I was in line at a H\u00fcsker D\u00fc concert and started talking to this guy who had started a fanzine. I had no idea what a fanzine was but I loved music and saw an opportunity to go to shows for free. I latched on to the fanzine and started shooting bands like Black Flag and Sonic Youth, then went on to work for magazines such as [skateboarding title] Thrasher. After a few years, I decided to finish my photography degree. So, at 22, I called my editors and I said: \u201cI\u2019m retiring.\u201d I finished my degree before literally running away to join a circus. I landed in Portland, Oregon. I was working in a cafe when I met this band, Heatmiser, which Elliott Smith was in. We became friends and we used to hang out, cook meals and watch TV. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2020\/aug\/26\/jj-gonsons-best-photograph-a-smile-from-elliott-smith\" target=\"_blank\">JJ Gonson&#039;s best photograph: a smile from Elliott Smith<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018There was this cult of personality around him \u2013 the dark, tortured figure \u2013 but this shows the tip of the hat, the sideways glance: that\u2019s the actual person\u2019 In 1985, I was in line at a H\u00fcsker D\u00fc concert and started talking to this guy who had started a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}