Provocative photographer
Published: 30 March 2006, The Independent
"Robert Carlos Clarke, photographer: born 24 June 1950; twice married (one daughter); died London 25 March 2006."
For many, he embodied the stereotype of the sexist, macho photographer characterised by David Hemmings' London fashion photographer in the Sixties film Blow-Up. In interviews, he spoke provocatively about the sexually supercharged relationship between model and photographer, and saw himself as a hunter of models - young people whom he spotted in the street or in clubs:
"You get the feeling of having picked your own wild mushroom, otherwise they feel they are a