Photographs by Francis Goodman, 1930s-1970s
1294 Portraits in set
Born Francis Julian Gutmann (1913–89) in London, ‘Franzie’ was brought up in Munich from 1919, where he first experimented with photography on a Box Brownie camera. He returned to London in 1931 and anglicised his surname in 1938. As an eighteen-year old, he became apprenticed to the fashion and advertising photographer Shaw Wildman, and later worked for Peter Rose Pulham, whose Berkeley Square studio he adopted. His early fashion photographs appeared in Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar magazines, while his society portraits were published in The Sketch. Much of Goodman’s original work from the 1930s was lost during the Second World War, but several photographs are still traceable in photographic magazines and annuals, and press reproductions.
'Harper's Bazaar - Schiaparelli' (Unknown model)
by Francis Goodman
half-plate film negative, early 1930s
NPG x195593
Barbara Bentley (née Hastings)
by Francis Goodman
half-plate film copy negative, 1932
NPG x68804
by Francis Goodman
film copy negative, 1933
NPG x68801
by Francis Goodman
photo mechanical reproduction, 1933
NPG x137250
by Francis Goodman
half-plate film copy negative, 1933
NPG x68812
by Francis Goodman
5 x 4 inch film negative, 1933
NPG x68811
Florence Lambert (née Chuter, later Hole)
by Francis Goodman
half-plate film copy negative, 1934
NPG x68806
by Francis Goodman
5 x 4 inch film negative, 1934
NPG x68807
Lady (Mary) Elizabeth Oldfield (née Murray)
by Francis Goodman
half-plate film negative, 1935
NPG x68808
by Francis Goodman
vintage bromide print, circa 1935
NPG x137228
(Rachel) Katherine Wagg (née Horlick, later Contomichalos)
by Francis Goodman
half-plate film negative, 1935
NPG x195631
by Francis Goodman
vintage bromide print, circa 1936-1937
NPG x137227
by Francis Goodman
vintage bromide print, circa 1936-1937
NPG x137226
by Francis Goodman
vintage bromide print, 1937
NPG x12737
by Francis Goodman
vintage bromide print, 1937
NPG x12738
by Francis Goodman
tear sheet, published 27 March 1940
NPG x195046
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1940s
NPG x195053
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1940s
NPG x195054
by Francis Goodman
twelve 2 1/4 inch square film negatives, 1940s
NPG x195116
by Francis Goodman
twelve 2 1/4 inch square film negatives, 1940s
NPG x195117