Sir Harold Evans

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Sir Harold Evans

by Lord Snowdon
gelatin silver print, 3 April 1980
12 in. x 11 7/8 in. (305 mm x 303 mm) image size
Given by Antony Charles Robert Armstrong Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, 2013
Primary Collection
NPG P1872

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Published in Vogue, August 1981, where he was described as having an 'unabating vitality', shortly after being appointed editor of The Times. Evans appears with an Imperial typewriter identical to the one on which he wrote his first news stories. In the introduction to Snowdon Stills 1984-1987, Evans wrote: 'It is likely that the naturalism and sensitivity Snowdon has brought to social reportage will endure…It began on the Sunday Times colour magazine …'.

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