Cornel Lucas (1920-2012), Photographer
Sitter associated with 4 portraits
Artist of 66 portraits
At fifteen he started work in a film-processing laboratory and studied photography at the Regent Street Polytechnic. He worked at the RAF Photographic School at Farnborough during the war, before going to work at Denham Studios in 1945. Lucas was so successful that the Rank Organisation set up a specially equipped studio at Pinewood for him to photograph the major stars they had under contract. During the 1940s and 1950s he took thousands of photographs, creating many iconic images of the leading players of the era. In 1959 he opened his own studio on Flood Street, Chelsea, working in advertising and fashion photography as well as portraiture.
Stewart Granger (James Lablache Stewart)
by Cornel Lucas
bromide fibre print, 1946
NPG x87111
Sir Robert Murray Helpmann; Moira Shearer
by Cornel Lucas
bromide fibre print, 1947
NPG x87555
by Cornel Lucas
bromide fibre print on card mount, 1950s
NPG x35130
Trevor Howard (Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith)
by Cornel Lucas
bromide print, 1950
NPG x23306
by Cornel Lucas
modern C-type colour print from original negative, 1951
NPG x27871
by Cornel Lucas
bromide fibre print, 1952
NPG x87115
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