Photograph of the Month - October 2009
Past display archive
1 October - 31 October 2009
Room 39
Free
The Beatles (left to right) George Harrison; Paul McCartney; Ringo Starr; John Lennon
by Norman Parkinson
Given by the photographer, 1981
NPG x27128 and x133070
Photographed at the Hotel President, 62-72 Russell Square, London, these two studies were included in Norman Parkinson’s first major retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery in 1981.
The Gallery’s new exhibition Beatles to Bowie: the 60s exposed (15 October 2009 – 24 January 2010) will include Parkinson’s portraits of Adam Faith, Cliff Richard, and an image of Parkinson photographing The Beatles at Abbey Road studios.
A major retrospective celebrating Norman Parkinson’s long career and the publication of Louise Baring’s book Norman Parkinson: A Very British Glamour can be seen at Somerset House, 9 October 2009 – 31 January 2010. More Parkinson photographs can be seen in Room 33
in the display Twiggy: A Life in Photographs.
