By no means-before-seen {photograph} of Britney Spears launched for the primary time as a part of BBC Arts documentary, Britney: In Ten Pictures

A never-before-seen {photograph} of Britney Spears will function within the new BBC Arts documentary Britney: In Ten Pictures, now available on BBC iPlayer.

The picture was captured by photographer Lisa Means in January 1999, when she was commissioned by People journal to {photograph} a younger Britney Spears in her hometown of Kentwood shortly earlier than {the teenager} launched her first album. Several of the images have been launched on the time, however this one was by no means printed.

‘This didn’t get printed, it’s not one which’s ever been seen by anybody,’ Means explains within the documentary. ‘I was working for People magazine when I photographed Britney for the first home take that was ever done.’

Means was the primary photographer to be given entry to the Spears’ household residence. She recollects, ‘A lot of photographers push the limits, and maybe they get an outstanding shot, but I want to treat people with respect and that courtesy, and I think that’s why they have been so welcoming and warming.’

The beforehand unpublished picture exhibits Britney laughing with household and associates within the entrance of a truck, because the group make a journey to get ice cream.

Means explains, ‘They wanted to go get some ice-cream, so we went to the local drive-in place. I was smushed in the back of the truck to get the images so it was kind of challenging too. Jason is driving, a childhood friend, and Courtney. I think this is her cousin here. And we just had so much fun. They were singing to Madonna and Britney was like, “I hope I get to meet her one day!” and we were like, “oh that would be really cool”’.

‘She was so naïve, so innocent, and I don’t imply naïve in a nasty means, I imply it in a very great way.’

Every week after Lisa’s shoot, Britney’s first album …Baby One More Time was launched on 12 January 1999, promoting over ten million copies in its first 12 months and solidifying Britney’s celebrity standing.

Years later, in 2003, Britney famously carried out with Madonna on the MTV Video Music Awards, culminating in a now iconic on-stage kiss between the pair – a second explored later within the documentary as one of many ten defining pictures tracing Britney Spears’ extraordinary rise to fame and the extreme media scrutiny that adopted.

Alongside Lisa Means, the movie consists of interviews with photographer Nigel Parry, paparazzi Nick Stern and Daniel Ramos, journal editor Dylan Jones, British music video director Nigel Dick, and members of the Free Britney motion.

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