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Mayotte Magnus (1934-), Photographer; wife of Jorge ('J.S.') Lewinski

Sitter in 1 portrait
Artist of 53 portraits
French born wife of Jorge Lewinski. She took up photography in 1970, winning a major Ilford photographic prize in 1972. Magnus became a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 1973. She had a one-woman show at F.N.A.C., Paris in 1974. The National Portrait Gallery held an exhibition of her photographs of eminent British women in 1977 entitled Women and Magnus had work included in Women's Images of Men in 1981 at the ICA, London. She has collaborated with her husband Jorge Lewinski in a series of photographically illustrated books.

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Lynn Seymour

by Mayotte Magnus
colour print, May 1974
NPG x18654

x18614

Elisabeth Frink

by Mayotte Magnus
bromide print, April 1974
NPG x18614

x18621

Elizabeth (née Harman), Countess of Longford

by Mayotte Magnus
bromide print, September 1975
NPG x18621

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(Agnes) Elisabeth Lutyens

by Mayotte Magnus
bromide print, August 1976
NPG x18622

x18606

Muriel Clara Bradbrook

by Mayotte Magnus
bromide print, August 1976
NPG x18606

x18648

Ninette de Valois

by Mayotte Magnus
bromide print, May 1976
NPG x18648

x18610

(Margaret) Mary Douglas (née Twomey)

by Mayotte Magnus
bromide print, November 1976
NPG x18610

x18611

Dame Margaret Drabble (Lady Holroyd)

by Mayotte Magnus
bromide print, May 1976
NPG x18611

x18612

Dame Jane Beverly Drew

by Mayotte Magnus
bromide print, May 1976
NPG x18612

x18652

Jessica Mitford

by Mayotte Magnus
colour print on card mount, November 1976
NPG x18652

x18628

Iris Murdoch

by Mayotte Magnus
bromide print, June 1976
NPG x18628

x18627

Dame (Alice) Rosemary Murray

by Mayotte Magnus
bromide print, September 1976
NPG x18627

x18634

Bridget Horatia (née Richmond), Lady Plowden

by Mayotte Magnus
bromide print, November 1976
NPG x18634

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Dilys Powell

by Mayotte Magnus
bromide print, June 1976
NPG x18635

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Marie Rambert

by Mayotte Magnus
bromide print, February 1976
NPG x18636

x18625

Susan Lilian Primrose Cunliffe-Lister, Baroness Masham of Ilton (Countess of Swinton)

by Mayotte Magnus
bromide print, May 1976
NPG x18625

x18626

Jean Elizabeth Muir

by Mayotte Magnus
bromide print, June 1976
NPG x18626

x18630

Edna O'Brien

by Mayotte Magnus
bromide print, September 1976
NPG x18630

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Molly Parkin

by Mayotte Magnus
bromide print, August 1977
NPG x18631

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Erin Patria Margaret Pizzey (née Carney)

by Mayotte Magnus
bromide print, February 1977
NPG x18632

Place
France