Article: Moore's artists: 35 years of portraits by a master photographer: Michael Hall talks to Derry Moore about a major theme in the photographers's distinguished career: portraits of artists, collectors and art critics. They begin with Henry Moore and Bill Brandt in the early 1970s and come right up to date with a new study of Grayson Perry, specially commissioned by Apollo.

It is no accident that portraits of artists, art critics and collectors form such a strong theme in Derry Moore's photography, for it was a painter who gave him the first clue about what his career might be. 'In the summer of 1959', Moore recalls, 'while I was still at Cambridge, I spent six weeks in Salzburg, partly to learn German but mostly to attend the Schule des Sehens--the School of Seeing--run by Oskar Kokoschka. I knew at once that I had discovered something extraordinary. Kokoschka used art to make people learn how to look. I spent a lot of time doing watercolours, partly as exercises in space and light.'

Moore left Kokoschka--whom he once described as ...

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