Blow Up: Sixties Photography Exposed
21 September 2002 - 27 April 2003
Room 32
Free
Inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 film Blow Up which starred David Hemmings as a photographer in “Swinging Sixties” London, this display was based around six newly-acquired photographs by David Bailey. His portraits of Michael Caine, Mick Jagger, Jean Shrimpton, Jane Birkin, Kenneth Tynan and Robert Fraser with Jann Haworth were shown alongside other works by leading photographers, focusing on the icons of sixties film, fashion and pop music.
Besides several portraits of the stars of Blow Up including David Hemmings and Sarah Miles, the display also featured portraits of models Jill Kennington and Melanie Hampshire as well as a group picture of four Beatles wives and girlfriends.
David Bailey
Mick Jagger
by David Bailey
December 1964
NPG P952
Mick Jagger
By David Bailey
Bromide print, December 1964
NPG P952
Robert Fraser and Jann Haworth
By David Bailey
Bromide print, October 1968
NPG P953
Jean Shrimpton
By David Bailey
Bromide print, 1963
NPG P954
Kenneth Tynan
By David Bailey
Bromide print, November 1968
NPG P955
Twiggy
by Ronald Traeger
February 1967
NPG x125452
Michael Caine
By David Bailey
Bromide print, May 1965
NPG P951
Jane Birkin
By David Bailey
Bromide print, March 1969
NPG P950
Sounds of the Sixties
David Bailey
By Terry O’Neill
Bromide fibre print, 1965
NPG x125464
Donovan
By Lewis Morley
Cibachrome print from original transparency, 1965
NPG x87161
Pattie Boyd; Cynthia Lennon; Maureen Starr (née Mary Cox, later Tigrett); Helen Mary ('Jenny') Fleetwood (née Boyd)
by Ronald Traeger
September 1967
NPG x125445
John Lennon
By Robert Whitaker
Cibachrome print, 1965
NPG P734
The Beatles
By Robert Whitaker
Cibachrome print, 1966
NPG P733
Cynthia, Julian and John Lennon
By Robert Whitaker
Cibachrome print, May 1965
NPG P732
Brian Epstein
By Robert Whitaker
Double exposure bromide print, June 1964
NPG P737
The Rolling Stones
By Gered Mankowitz
Digital C-type colour print, 1965
NPG x88063
Jean Shrimpton; Terence Stamp
by Terry O'Neill
1964
NPG x125463
The Who
By Colin Jones
Iris print, January 1966
NPG x125447
Beatles Wives
By Ronald Traeger
Bromide fibre print, September 1967
NPG x125445
Cliff Richard and the Shadows
By Angus McBean
Bromide print, 1961
NPG P912
Ravi Shankar
By Ida Kar
Vintage bromide print, 1960s
NPG x125458
Brian Epstein
by Robert Whitaker
June 1964
NPG P737
Dusty Springfield
By John D. Green
Bromide print, 1967
NPG x88427
Cilla Black
By Baron Studios
Half-plate film negative, 1965
NPG x125393
Sixties Film and Fashion
Jill Kennington and Melanie Hampshire
By Norman Parkinson
Bromide print, 1963
NPG x30110
London Fashion Designers
By Norman Parkinson
Bromide fibre print on card mount, 18 October 1963
NPG x30111
The Shadows
by Angus McBean
1961
NPG P912
Adam Faith and models
By Norman Parkinson
Bromide print on card mount, 15 October 1962
NPG x30035
Melanie Hampshire
By Norman Parkinson
Bromide print on card mount, 1963
NPG x30107
Twiggy
By Ronald Traeger
Cibachrome print from a transparency of vintage print, February 1967
NPG x125452
Twiggy
By Ronald Traeger
Cibachrome print from a transparency of vintage contact sheet, February 1967
NPG x125453
Melanie Hampshire; Jill Kennington
by Norman Parkinson
1963
NPG x30110
Alan Bates
By Frances McLaughlin-Gill
Bromide fibre print, 1965
NPG x46520
Sarah Miles
By John D. Green
Bromide print, 1967
NPG x88428
Julie Christie
By John D. Green
Bromide print, 1967
NPG x88430
Jane Asher
By John D. Green
Bromide print, 1967
NPG x88429
London Fashion Designers
by Norman Parkinson
18 October 1963
NPG x30111
John Stephen
By Angela Coombes
Cibachrome print, 1960s
NPG x125457
Caroline Charles
By Allan Ballard
Vintage bromide print, 1960s
NPG x125460
David Hemmings
By Terry O’Neill
Bromide fibre print, 1966
NPG x125462
Terence Stamp and Jean Shrimpton
By Terry O’Neill
Bromide fibre print, 1964
NPG x125463
Dusty Springfield
by John d'Green
1967
NPG x88427
Allan Ballard/John Cowan
By Allan Ballard
Vintage bromide print, 1960s
NPG x125461
Charlotte Rampling
By Lewis Morley
Cibachrome print from original transparency, 1960s
NPG x87166
Jean Shrimpton
by David Bailey
1963
NPG P954
Related sitters
- Jane Asher
- Primrose Austen
- David Bailey
- Allan Ballard
- Sir Alan Arthur Bates
- Jane Birkin
- Cilla Black (Priscilla White)
- Patricia Ann ('Pattie') Boyd
- Kiki Byrne
- Sir Michael Caine
- Caroline Charles
- Julie Frances Christie
- David Courts
- Lotte Courts
- John Cowan
- Roger Harry Daltrey
- Donovan (Donovan Phillips Leitch)
- John Entwistle
- Brian Epstein
- Adam Faith
- Helen Mary ('Jenny') Fleetwood (née Boyd)
- Marion Foale
- Robert Fraser
- Celia Hammond
- Melanie Hampshire
- Terence ('Jet') Harris
- George Harrison
- David Hemmings
- Sir Michael Philip ('Mick') Jagger
- Brian Jones
- Jill Kennington
- Anne Larson
- Twiggy Lawson (née Lesley Hornby)
- Cynthia Lennon
- John Lennon
- Julian Lennon
- Gerald McCann
- Sir (James) Paul McCartney
- Hank Marvin (Brian Rankin)
- Daniel ('Tony') Meehan
- Sarah Miles
- Keith Moon
- Jean Elizabeth Muir
- Mary O'Flaherty
- Alexander Plunket Greene
- Dame Mary Quant
- (Tessa) Charlotte Rampling
- Sir Cliff Richard (Harry Webb)
- Keith Richards
- Tony Sanchez ('Spanish Tony')
- David Sassoon
- Ravi Shankar
- Jean Shrimpton
- Dusty Springfield
- Terence Henry Stamp
- Maureen Starr (née Mary Cox, later Tigrett)
- Sir Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey)
- John Stephen
- Dean Stockwell
- Kenneth Sweet
- Peter Dennis Blandford ('Pete') Townshend
- Sally Tuffin
- Kenneth Peacock Tynan
- Charles Robert ('Charlie') Watts
- James Wedge
- Bruce Welch (Bruce Cripps)
- Bill Wyman