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It’s Sunday once again, it’s October, not only are the weeks flying, but the months too.
It’s time for another ACBA image of the week, THIS week, it’s a shot of Batman & Robin portrayed by Adam West & Burt Ward in the classic 1966 series.
The image this week is by the brilliantly talented Cedric Bacon,
We got in touch and asked Cedric on what inspired this cool image, the following is what he had to say:
“I wanted to do something for Batman Day, and every year for it I find myself often doing something related to the 1966 Batman TV series. I think the reason why is because that was the first exposure I had to Batman as a kid, even with the many other incarnations. Adam West still remains my favorite actor to portray Batman because of the joi de vivre he brought to the role across those three seasons, with an understated deadly serious acting quality that makes it real hard not to like after multiple viewings.”
“The chief inspiration came down to how I wanted to do a piece this year. It was down to recreating the opening animation as a panels sequence or something else, with the “something else”, I had no idea on how I wanted to go about executing it, until I received the new “To The Batcave” set with the Batcomputer and accessories in the mail a day or so before I shot the piece.”
“It’s the set that includes the unmasked Bruce Wayne/Adam West head as an alternate head-swap onto the main Batman figure. Since I already had two from the line, I clearly wasn’t going to display Batman masked for a third time, and it was looking at it and fiddling around with it that the germ of that idea started gestating.”
“I looked up several behind the scenes photos of the making of Batman ’66 to get an idea of how I wanted to shoot and display it. The little detail of the costume girl tightening Robin/Burt Ward’s cape comes from an actual image where you see Burt Ward getting ready, and Adam West is to the side drinking coffee before going out on a shoot. It was such a relaxed photo of the two actors that I knew it was something I wanted to try and accomplish as a little fun type of picture, something I’d never thought to shoot with the Batman TV figures before.”
“I went about shooting the image in a couple different ways with different focal points, different poses, different lighting before settling on what is here now.”
If you’d like to see more from Cedric Bacon, you can check him out on at his online links:
Instagram: @Batced
DeviantArt: http://batced.deviantart.com/
Tumblr: http://batced.tumblr.com/
Thanks again to Cedric for providing this great image,
Thanks to you for reading,
We’ll be back with another great image next week.