David Hemmings
1 portrait by Terry O'Neill
© Iconic Images/Terry O’Neill
David Hemmings
by Terry O'Neill
bromide fibre print, 1966
11 5/8 in. x 16 in. (296 mm x 405 mm)
Given by Terry O'Neill, 2002
Photographs Collection
NPG x125462
Artistback to top
- Terry O'Neill (1938-2019), Photographer. Artist or producer of 80 portraits, Sitter in 2 portraits.
Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- Beatles to Bowie: the 60s exposed (15 October 2009 - 24 January 2010)
- Terry O'Neill: Celebrity (6 September 2003 - 14 March 2004)
- Blow Up: Sixties Photography Exposed (21 September 2002 - 27 April 2003)
Subjects & Themesback to top
Events of 1966back to top
Current affairs
The English football team wins against West Germany at the World Cup Final in Wembley.144 people, including 116 children, die in the Aberfan disaster when a colliery waste tip slides down a mountain in Wales.
Ian Brady and Myra Hindley are sentence to life imprisonment for the brutal Moors Murders.
Art and science
Tom Stoppard's first play Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead premiers. This absurdist play uses two minor characters from Hamlet to explore the existential themes of free will versus determinism and the futility of language.Seamus Heany publishes his first volume of poems, Death of a Naturalist.
International
The Cultural Revolution is launched in China in order to bring Chinese culture and society in line with communist ideals. It was also, however, an attempt by Mao Zedong to regain control of the country after the mistakes of the Great Leap Forward.Archbishop of Canterbury, Arthur Michael Ramsey meets Pope Paul VI, the first official meeting between the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches for 400 years.
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terry Schuler
08 June 2021, 21:48
Taken facing North on the Commercial Road....Pub in background, The Lord (?) Napier once stood on corner of Lowell Street E.14....now demolished.