"A few people were doing it at the time. Jean Pagliuso and Benno Friedman were doing it a little bit differently. I had a boyfriend, and we went on a cross-country trip. One of the places we went was Las Vegas. I loved the Las Vegas pictures, so I decided to put some color in them, and then in some other pictures, pictures I'd done of some cows."
"Those photos of luminaries, including Steve Martin, Burt Reynolds, Carrie Fisher, The Rolling Stones, Lily Tomlin, and eventually "The Not Ready for Prime Time" players John Belushi, Gilda Radner, and Dan Aykroyd, have now been collected into a book called Live from My Studio: The Art of Edie Baskin, published by Simon & Schuster Books."
"I'd like to see it change into something I've made."
Edie Baskin photographed the opening credits for Saturday Night Live starting with the first broadcast on October 11, 1975, and served as the show's sole photographer for its first 25 years. Her black-and-white portraits of hosts, guests, and cast members were used as bumpers between commercials and the program. Baskin augmented many images with hand-applied color and graphic elements, using Marshall photo oils, pencil sets, and chalk. She began experimenting with color after a cross-country trip that included Las Vegas. A chance friendship with Lorne Michaels led to work on a Lily Tomlin special and subsequent involvement with Saturday Night Live. Many of the portraits are collected in Live from My Studio.
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