John Hedgecoe: Portraits
JOHN HEDGECOE: PORTRAITS
24 March - 18 June 2000
Bookshop Gallery and Portrait Cafe
Admission Free
John Hedgecoe (b.1936) is one of Britain's leading portrait photographers. He is also the world's best-selling writer on practical photography, having sold some 9 million books worldwide. This display is a part of a widespread showing of Hedgecoe's work to celebrate the publication of his book Portraits. It presents a selection of 23 photographs (including several in colour which are not in the book), on public display for the first time.
Mary Quant
© John Hedgecoe
Henry Moore
© John Hedgecoe
John Mortimer, N.F. Simpson and Harold Pinter
© John Hedgecoe
The exhibition features many cultural icons of the late twentieth century - Francis Bacon, Mary Quant, Ted Hughes, Agatha Christie and Vita Sackville West. Colour portraits on display for the first time include portraits of Zandra Rhodes, Clough Williams-Ellis, and David Hockney.
Hedgecoe has photographed leading figures in the worlds of theatre, art, music, fashion, politics and literature for around 40 years, from 1953, when, as a student, he first photographed Henry Moore. In 1957 he joined Queen magazine as staff photographer, under the editorship of Jocelyn Stevens. In 1965 Hedgecoe founded the Photography Department at the Royal College of Art, and was Professor of Photography there from 1975 - 1994.
John Betjeman
© John Hedgecoe
Vita Sackville West
© John Hedgecoe
Publication
Portraits by John Hedgecoe is published in hardback by Collins & Brown, price £40.
John Hedgecoe Exhibitions
Royal College of Art, London 1 March - 4 April 2000
Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia 13 March - July 2000
Related portraits
- Henry Moore (NPG P774)
- Mark Boxer (NPG P770)
- Vita Sackville-West (NPG P775)
- Alan Sillitoe (NPG P776)
- Gladys Bertha ('G.B.') Stern (NPG P777)
- Playwrights (John Mortimer; Norman Frederick Simpson; Harold Pinter) (NPG P781)
- The Humanist Society ((Basil) Kingsley Martin; Leo Abse; Ludovic Kennedy; Edward Francis Williams, Baron Francis-Williams; Sir Alfred Jules Ayer; Brigid Antonia Brophy) (NPG P782)
- Agatha Christie; Sir Max Mallowan (NPG P771)
- Sir (Bertram) Clough Williams-Ellis (NPG P780)
- Barbara Hepworth (NPG P773)
- (Francis) George Steiner (NPG P778)
- Stella Gibbons (NPG P772)
Related sitters
- Leo Abse
- Sir Alfred Jules Ayer
- Mark Boxer
- Brigid Antonia Brophy
- Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (née Miller)
- Edward Francis Williams, Baron Francis-Williams
- Stella Dorothea Gibbons (later Webb)
- Dame Barbara Hepworth
- Sir Ludovic Henry Coverley Kennedy
- Sir Max Mallowan
- (Basil) Kingsley Martin
- Henry Moore
- Sir John Clifford Mortimer
- Harold Pinter
- Victoria Mary ('Vita') Sackville-West
- Alan Sillitoe
- Norman Frederick Simpson
- (Francis) George Steiner
- Gladys Bertha ('G.B.') Stern
- Sir (Bertram) Clough Williams-Ellis