The extended V.F. family remembers Hannah Thomson, who spent more than a decade capturing power and personality at the world’s most glamorous gatherings
in Paris, among many more); processing, editing, archiving, and submitting film from his Chelsea studio; and heading right back on the road. Thomson handled all the photo subjects with polite, elegant deference, learned to manage the equipment, and left Becker free to interact and compose, he recalled.
“But it was at the occasional events that Hannah really shone: the Oscar party, Cannes Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival opening, the Met ball, the debutante ball in Paris,” Becker wrote, noting that Thomson particularly loved the challenge of the complicated system he devised for extracting spontaneous portraits at parties.
“Hannah loved the excitement with an outsider’s sense of thrill, and at some point, she offered to let me take breaks so she could do some pictures. She did this brilliantly and with great enthusiasm for the subjects, whose names she painstakingly remembered,” Becker wrote. “So I was immensely proud of her whenhired her independently for their events with spectacular results,” Becker said. “I could bow out gracefully and guiltlessly and watch Hannah shine beautifully. She made it her very own.
“Hannah seemed to come out of blue sky,” Becker wrote. “Of her own devices. A blessing. Our years of working together later evolved into a radiant friendship deeply rooted in that work’s fertile soil. My present state of pure denial of her demise is so complete that I just now looked, and nearly reached, reflexively for the phone to ask what she’d like me to say. One feels the loss of a true ally acutely. We spoke our own code.
Thomson made no less of an impact on her own assistants. “[She] truly knew how to capture the moment and tell a story with her work,”recalled. “She always navigated her shoots with such grace and explored the subjects with curiosity and excitement. She was one of a kind.”events in the early days of his career. “Working alongside Hannah was a master class in navigating that world with a camera,” he said.
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