Photographic exhibitions

 

 

Photographic exhibitions and displays 1968-

(*denotes NPG as tour venue)

Exhibitions and Attendance figures

2007
Blair at War: Photographs by Nick Danziger
Individuals: 20 portraits from the Gap Collection
Faith and Church: Portraits by Don McCullin
Photographs 1965-2006 | Jorge Lewinski| Bob Collins| Portraits of the 1970s and 1980s| Exceptional Youth ]

  2006
Photographs 1965-2006
Pet Shop Boys
Sir Benjamin Stone's Parliamentary Pictures
John Gay
The Beatles on the Balcony
First Showing
A Picture of Health: Portraits by Julia Fullerton-Batten
Benjamin's Britain
Born in 1856

Fergus Greer
First Showing
Chinese Connections
Captain Scott's Last Expedition
Royal Court Theatre
Commissioning Photographs: 1917-1970
The Royal Ballet at Seventy-Five
Harley Granville-Barker
Lillah McCarthy
  2005
Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize 2005| Publication
The World's Most Photographed| Publication

Lee Miller: Portraits| Publication
Heads of Government: Photographs by David Partner
A Question of Identity: Self-Portrait Photographs 1850 - 2000
Recent Photographic Acquisitions
Cornel Lucas: Shooting Stars
Samuel Beckett
25 Years of i-D
Cameroon - London
Defying Distance
Goddesses and Others: Photographs by Madame Yevonde

Derry Moore Photographs
Bloomsbury and Beyond
George Moore
Harry Borden on business
Frida Kahlo: Portraits of an Icon
One hundred years ago
Jane Bown
Paul Tanqueray
Anna May Wong
  2004
Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize 2004| Publication
A Blueprint for Life: Designers photographed by Steve Speller
Norman Parkinson: Portraits in Fashion| Publication
Photographs by Horace Ové
Bill Brandt: Portraits
James Hunkin: Faces of Science
Gaiety Girls: Footlight Favourites from the 1900s -1920s
Cecil Beaton: Portraits| Publication
We Are The People: Postcards from the Collection of Tom Phillips| Publication
Mario Testino: New Acquisitions
Lucian Freud in the Studio: Photographs by David Dawson| Publication
    2003
Designer Faces: Photographic Portraits of Contemporary Designers
Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize 2003| Publication
A Gardener's Labyrinth: Portraits of People, Plant and Places by Tessa Traeger and Patrick Kinmonth
DJs by Chris Lopez
Photographic Portraits of Contemporary Designers
Terry O'Neill: Celebrity
Julia Margaret Cameron: 19th Century Photographer of Genius| Publication
Iconic Women by Reuters Photographers
You Look Beautiful Like That: The Portrait Photographs of Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibe
British Blondes

Lichfield: The Early Years 1962-1982
  2002
Mario Testino: Portraits| Publication
The Contenders: Sporting Portraits by Anderson & Low
Managing Partners: Photographs by Jillian Edelstein, Tom Miller and Dudley Reed

The Art Establishment: Photographs by Lucy Dickens
Faces of Pop
She Bop: Women in Pop

Anthony Buckley 1912-1993
John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award 2002: A Ten Year Celebration | Publication

Authors of Murder: Photographs by Nicola Kurtz
Blow Up: Sixties Photography Exposed
2001
John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award 2001 | Publication
The Beautiful and the Damned: The Creation of Identity in Nineteenth Century Photography
*Philippe Halsman: A Retrospective
Rollie McKenna: Artists and Poets
Horst Portraits: 60 Years of Style | Publication
The Art of Gardening: Photographs by Tessa Traeger
Gemma Levine: Portrait Photographer
Fergus Greer: Directors
Photo Portraits: Women Artists
Reviewers Revealed- Celebrating the TLS Centenary
In The City: Edward Barber
Portraits in Mind: 100 Years of British Psychology
Mike McCartney: 60s Photographs
Sixties Style: Ward, Wharton and Seymour
2000
John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award 2000
Elizabeth Taylor: A Photographic Celebration | Publication
Polly Borland: Australians | Publication
Photographs by Snowdon: A Retrospective | Publication
Princes of Victorian Bohemia: Photographs by David Wilkie Wynfield | Publication
Portraits: Photographs by John Hedgecoe
The Jokers: Photographs by Trevor Leighton
The Tartan Army: Photographs of Contemporary Scottish Film Actors
by Donald MacLellan
Management Today, Management Tomorrow: 21 leaders for the 21st century
1999
Faces of the Century: A Sainsbury's Photographic Exhibition | Publication
John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award 1999
Icons of Pop: BritPorts1958 - 1999
David Buckland: Performances
Bright Young Things
Keepers of the Kingdom: Photographs by Julian Calder and Mark Cator
1998
John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award 1998
*Lewis Carroll: Through The Viewfinder
High Society: Edwardian Photographs 1887-1914
Tête à Tête: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Black Power: Photographs by Donald MacLellan
The Art of Cooking: Photographic Portraits by Barry Marsden
Twenty Years On: Photographs by John Swannell
  1997
Bruce Weber: Branded Youth and Other Stories
John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award 1997
Clifford Coffin: The Varnished Truth - Photographs from Vogue 1945 to1955
*August Sander: 'In photography there are no unexplained shadows!'
Variations on a Theme: 150 Years of Photographs of British Composers
  1996
John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award 1996
Literati: Photographs by Mark Gerson
Assembling the Family: Photography and Family Portraiture
John Deakin Photographs
The Room in View
1995
The Lure of the Limelight: James Abbe, photographer of Cinema and Stage
John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award 1995
Robert Whitaker: Underground London. Photographs 1965-1970
*Richard Avedon: Evidence 1944-1994
Faces of the Eighties
  1994
The Sitwells: The Photography Legacy
British Comedians
Edwardian Women Photographers:
Eveleen Myers, Alice Hughes, Christina Broom and Olive Edis
John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award 1994
Face to Face: The Portrait Photographs of Nick Sinclair
*Annie Leibovitz Photographs 1970-1990
1993
New Photography Gallery: The NPG Collects
Fashion in Photographs 1860-1940
  1992
*The ICI Photography Awards
Eve Arnold in Britain
1991
The Karsh Collection
In Pursuit of Perfection: The Photographs of Dorothy Wilding
Double Take
  1990
Video Portraits (by Marty St James and Anne Wilson)
Chris Garnham Photographer 1958-1989
Madame Yevonde: Colour, Fantasy & Myth
1989
Camera Portraits: Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery 1839-1989
Lewis Morley: Photographer of the Sixties
The Man Who Shot Garbo: Photographs by Clarence Sinclair Bull
Work: Photographs by Brian Griffin
1988
Alice Springs
Portraits: Helmut Newton
Shadowland: Gordon Anthony Photographs 1926-1952
Mapplethorpe Portraits: Photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe 1975-87
  1987
In Close Up: Laurence Olivier 80th Birthday Tribute
  1986
Staging the Self: Self-Portrait Photography 1840s-1980s
Twenty For Today: New Portrait Photography
  1985
Stars of the British Screen
Howard Coster: Camera Portraits of the Twenties and Thirties
The Sporting Thirties
1984
The Victorian Art World in Photographs
Karsh: 50 Years of Photographs
  1982
Bill Brandt Portraits
  1981
Norman Parkinson: 50 Years of Portraits and Fashion
  1980
The Gentle Eye: photographs by Jane Bown of the Observer
The Queen Mother: a celebration
  1979
The Great British: Photographs by Arnold Newman
People in Camera
1978
Camera Portraits by E O Hoppé
  1977
Paul Joyce: Photographs of Elders
Mayotte Magnus: Photographs of Women
Happy and Glorious: 130 years of Royal photographs
Felix H Man: Reportage Portraits 1929-76
  1976
Young Writers of the Thirties
Paul Strand
  1975
The Herschel Album
*The Camera Goes to War
  1974
Collecting Faces: a Victorian Pastime
Londoners at Home: portrait photographs by Nancy Hellebrand
The Camera and Dr Barnardo
Johnny Dewe Matthews: portrait photographs
Sir Benjamin Stone 1838-1914
Lewis Carroll at Christ Church
  1973
The David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson Albums
  1972
The Masque of Beauty
J.S. Lewinski: portrait photographs
  1971
David Octavius Hill
*Snap! - Bailey, Scarfe and Hockney
Godfrey Argent: portrait photographs
 

1968
Beaton Portraits: 1928-68

In addition, the majority of larger scale exhibitions would also have included a large photographic element, e.g. The Raj, G.B. Shaw, Lawrence of Arabia, Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter: Portrait's of Children's Writers etc.