Ken Adam, 1921-2016: a tribute in pictures
The production designer Ken Adam, who created the stages for both Stanley Kubrick and James Bond, has died at the age of 95. We look back at his extraordinary work in sketches and photographs, accompanied by Adam’s own quotes from the Sight & Sound archive.
“People say, ‘Why don’t you shoot everything on location?’ But on a set you can often give the director a better picture by getting away from architectural principles. Most rooms you could find on location are just square boxes and don’t give good pictures and interesting angles.”
All quotes are taken from interviews with Ken Adam by Roger Hudson in the Winter 1964/65 issue of Sight & Sound and by Geoffrey Macnab in the September 1999 issue.
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