Terence Donovan
(1936-1996), Photographer and film directorTerence Daniel Donovan
Sitter in 4 portraits
Artist of 21 portraits
At fifteen Terence Donovan began working in the photographic department of a Fleet Street printers. He gained his first experience with a camera while on National Service, when he was able to augment his army pay with the sale of cheerful postcards with such titles as Catterick by Moonlight. By the time he was twenty-one he was working as an assistant to the leading fashion photographer John French; four years later he had set up a studio of his own. In later years Donovan's assignments and commissions included the engagement photographs of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, as well as official studies of Margaret Thatcher and the Princess of Wales.
Photographers (David Bailey; Brian Duffy; Terence Donovan)
by Arnold Newman
bromide print, 1978?
NPG P150(45)
Six photographers with their favourite models
by Terence Donovan
modern bromide print, 1960s
NPG x135756
by Patrick Lichfield
archival inkjet print, February 1967
NPG x128489
David Bailey; Patrick Lichfield; Terence Donovan
by John Swannell
bromide fibre print, circa 1980
NPG x25285
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