Bryan Wharton
(1934-2020), PhotographerSitter in 4 portraits
Artist of 20 portraits
Bryan Wharton was one of the star photographers of the Sunday Times recruited by the new ownership of Lord Thomson and editorship of Harold Evans. Invited to join the paper in 1964 after four years with the Daily Express the paper was anxious to inject more dynamism into its news and pictorial coverage. Cal McCrystal commented on his portraiture: 'Wharton's genius is in drawing out his subject's hidden humours or repressed moods and recording them before the carapace snaps shut again. So far as I am aware, none of his subjects berated him for such intimate exposure. Many joined his formidable string of friends'.
by Bryan Wharton
bromide print, 29 September 1961
NPG x88638
by Bryan Wharton
bromide print, 10 December 1964
NPG x88640
by Bryan Wharton
bromide print, 31 August 1967
NPG x88644
George Alfred Brown, Baron George-Brown
by Bryan Wharton
bromide print, 1967
NPG x88890
Tim Rice; Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd Webber
by Bryan Wharton
bromide print, 24 October 1968
NPG x88637
The Goons (Peter Sellers; Spike Milligan; Sir Harry Donald Secombe)
by Bryan Wharton
bromide print, 6 May 1968
NPG x88639
by Bryan Wharton
bromide print, November 1971
NPG x88641
Sir Cliff Richard; Mary Whitehouse
by Bryan Wharton
bromide print, 1972
NPG x88887
Alexander George Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath; Anna Gael Thynn (née Gyarmathy), Marchioness of Bath
by Bryan Wharton
bromide print, February 1973
NPG x88642
Henry Frederick Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath
by Bryan Wharton
bromide print, 2 April 1976
NPG x88634
George Thomas, Viscount Tonypandy
by Bryan Wharton
bromide print, 9 June 1976
NPG x88636
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