Photographer Kevin Cummins's best shot

'It almost doesn't need the band. It would still be a Joy Division photograph without them'Joy Division were relatively unknown when I did this NME shoot. It was 1979 and I was just starting out, too, so in a way we were experimenting with each other. It's one of the first band shoots I did – and probably my best-known photograph.I didn't really like a lot of rock'n'roll imagery: I thought it was confrontational. What I was trying to do here was capture their sound. I felt that the space in ...

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