Norman Parkinson - Lifework

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Since the thirties, Norman Parkinson's photographs have captured the essential glamour
of each successive decade. Along with Avedon and Penn, he largely invented fashion photography as we itnow it today: together they probably killed for ever the static pictures of the pre-war era. In the fifties he was closely associated with Vogue, and became their star photographer for over two decades. Lifework contains the best of his work, and is accompanied by a highly entertaining autobiographical text that is peppered with incident and anecdote.
He is also an outstanding portrait photographer and this collection includes unequalled
portraits of - among many others - Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Marlene Dietrich and the Beatles. Parkinson, however, is probably best known for his portraits of the Royal Family, and in particular of Princess Anne.
Of the portraits in his 1981 show (the most successful photographic exhibition ever held at the National Portrait Gallery) The Times... Tovább

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Since the thirties, Norman Parkinson's photographs have captured the essential glamour
of each successive decade. Along with Avedon and Penn, he largely invented fashion photography as we itnow it today: together they probably killed for ever the static pictures of the pre-war era. In the fifties he was closely associated with Vogue, and became their star photographer for over two decades. Lifework contains the best of his work, and is accompanied by a highly entertaining autobiographical text that is peppered with incident and anecdote.
He is also an outstanding portrait photographer and this collection includes unequalled
portraits of - among many others - Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Marlene Dietrich and the Beatles. Parkinson, however, is probably best known for his portraits of the Royal Family, and in particular of Princess Anne.
Of the portraits in his 1981 show (the most successful photographic exhibition ever held at the National Portrait Gallery) The Times wrote: . . they suggest both in colour and in composition that he is the logical successor to Sargent. . . . He creates images right out of time, but he can also create time capsules such as were never dreamt of by H. G. Wells.' Shining through his work is his innate love of women and his natural ability to entertain. With over 60 pages in colour, and over 200 illustrations in black and white and duotone, this is the cream of fifty years' work - a book of glamour, wit, style and beauty.
Norman Parkinson lives in Tobago in the West Indies, but works regularly in London, New York, Paris and other parts of the world. For years a top photographer for both American and British Vogue, he has also worked for Life, The Queen, and now works for Town and Country. He Li married to Wenda, his one-time star model.
Front cover illustration Iman Haywood and Jerry Hall in Paris at the French Collections. Spring 1982.
Above The author with Andrea Hölterhof, 1980. Photograph by Chuck Zuretti. Vissza