"Do you want to know the full story?" Dean West asks me over the phone one Wednesday afternoon. As propositions go it sounds like an invitation to hear a slice of salacious gossip, but in fact the photographer is referring to the tale behind an image called Palm Springs II. The photograph – painstakingly staged to resemble an action shot, or a film still from a Hollywood blockbuster – was made as part of an ongoing series in which West recreates moments, either from…
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