Twenty for Today 29 May - 25 August 1986
Twenty for Today was an exhibition staged at the National Portrait Gallery to show a contemporary cross-section of work by leading and emerging photographers . The exhibition of 80 works highlighted both the increase in the acquisition of photographic portraiture by the Gallery since 1970, (when the National Photographic Record was ended) and the contemporary boom in the use of photographic portraiture in a number of fashion and lifestyle magazines that emerged in the 1980s such as i-D, Elle, Blitz and The Face. The exhibition was chosen in consultation with photographers aged under 40 and selected by the organisers to form a representative cross-section of the best of recent published and exhibited work.
Robert Barber
Phoebe Nicholls, 1983 (colour) x27933
Clare Park, 1984
Chris Barrie, 1985 (colour) x27930
Michael Birt
Richard Rogers, 1982 x23476
Victor Spinetti, 1983 x23479
Julie Walters, 1985 x31051
Greta Scaachi, 1986 x31050
Chris Garnham
Stefan Bednarczyk, 1984
Michael Clark, 1984 x26055
Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, 1984
Gilbert and George, 1986 P853
Brian Griffin
Len Deighton, 1983
Gary Stuve, 1984 (colour)
Douglas Adams, 1986 P957
Al Alvarez, 1986
Stephen Hyde
J.P. Donleavy, 1983 x24940
Sir Peter Parker, 1983 x24942
Sir John Summerson, 1984 x24948
Richard Rogers, 1986 x27439
David Buckland
The Family (Siobhan Davies, David Buckland and Piera), 1984 (Cibachrome)
The Machado de Oliveira Sisters, Paris, 1985 (Cibachrome)
The New Puritan (Michael Clark), 1985 (Cibachrome) P858
The Opera Designers (David Fielding and Anthony MacDonald), 1985, (Cibachrome)
David Hiscock
Self-portrait (triptych), 1984
Holly Warburton (triptych), 1984
Iain R. Webb, 1984 (colour)
Peter Gabriel, 1986 P857
Holly Warburton
Danielle Dax, 1985 (colour)
‘Princess’ Julia, 1985 (colour)
Susie May (from The Essence of Dead Roses), 1985 (colour)
Cerith Wynn Evans, 1985-6 (colour)
Alistair Morrison
Uwe Bahnsen, 1983 (colour) x31072
The Rt. Revd David E. Jenkins, Bishop of Durham, 1985 (colour) P355
Tim Roth, 1985 (colour) x31073
Alexei Sayle, 1985 (colour) x31074
Nick Knight
Scott Crolla and Georgina Godley, 1985 x26090
Stephen Jones, 1985 x26091
Morrissey, 1985 x26092
Iain R. Webb, 1985 x26093
Trevor Leighton
Shere Hite, 1982 x27940
Jackie Collins, 1983 x27939
John Hurt, 1984 x27941
Joan Greenwood, 1985 x27938
Perry Ogden
Richard Jobson, 1984 x27946
James Garner, 1985 x31833
David Tidball, 1985 x27947
Stevie B., 1986 x28647
Mike Owen
Bob Geldof, 1980 x28648
Jasper Conran, 1983 x31833
Simon Le Bon, 1984 x27947
Roger Rees, 1985 x28647
Steve Pyke
John Lydon (‘Johnny Rotten’), 1983 x26062
Ian Dury, 1984 x26061
Alex Cox, 1985 x26060
Samuel Fuller, 1985
Dudley Reed
Jason Bratby, 1982 x32174
Robert Wilson, 1984 x32176
Ricardo Bofill, 1985 x32175
P.D. James, 1985 x32170
Johnny Rozsa
Tina Turner, 1983
Marilyn, 1984 x29867
Sade, 1985 x29868
Martin Degville (Sigue Sigue Sputnik), 1986 x27943
John Swannell
Marianne Lah Swannell, 1981 x32148
Becky Baines, 1981 x27935
Peter Langan, 1984 x87601
Bruce Oldfield, 1985 x27936
Alastair Thain
Bruce McLean, 1984 P855
Joseph Beuys (triptych), 1985
Kathy Acker, 1986 x36069
Patricia Highsmith, 1986 x27945
David Ward
The Illuminated Man (Geoffrey Bird), 1981
Moonlight (Michael Hadley), 1982
Self-portrait, 1983
Protractor No. 3 (Self-portrait), 1984 (Photograms)
Liam Woon
Melvyn Brag, 1985 x25121
Bruce McLean, 1985 x25128
Jocelyn Stevens, 1986
Michael Winner, 1986 x126268