Harry Diamond
(1924-2009), PhotographerSitter in 7 portraits
Artist of 219 portraits
Photographer. Born in London's East End, Diamond worked for twenty years as a stagehand before taking up photography in 1969. He documented the changing cityscape of South London and the East End in the 1970s. In Soho, he captured his friends and the rising stars of the art world, including Eduardo Paolozzi and Lucian Freud (photographs in the National Portrait Gallery collection). One of Freud's early paintings of Diamond, Interior at Paddington (1951), was commissioned for the Arts Council's exhibition Sixty Paintings for 51, as part of the Festival of Britain.
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 9 November 1969
NPG x135769
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 9 November 1969
NPG x210129
by Harry Diamond
gelitin silver print, circa 1970
NPG x135767
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 1970s
NPG x210022
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 16 February 1970
NPG x210023
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 1970
NPG x210301
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 19 September 1970
NPG x210302
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 5 January 1970
NPG x210303
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 1970
NPG x210304
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 1970s
NPG x210307
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 1970s
NPG x210039
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 1970s
NPG x210048
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 1970s
NPG x210049
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 1970s
NPG x210050
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 1970s
NPG x210051
Stephen Finer; Bruce Bernard and two unknown sitters
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 1970s
NPG x210052
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 1970s
NPG x210053
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 1970s
NPG x210054
Gaston Berlemont and three unknown men
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 1970s
NPG x210055
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 1970s
NPG x210056
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jude mcgowan
21 December 2020, 17:51
Not much really. I was in and around Soho in the 60's with my boyfriend Willie mcgowan [later husband] he worked as a stagehand around the West End theatres and I presume that is where he met Harry Diamond. He was a strange, small quiet man who used to frequent the pubs we did like The French House, the Kismit Club and Cave de France club. We moved to Ealing and he must have liked jazz because we used to see him at the Ealing Jazz Festival which happened every summer.
Anna Fell
14 January 2021, 12:02
He was a friend of mine and a very kind man. He was very insistent that I went to a jazz concert along with a Turkish artist whose name I can't remember. He was laughing quietly throughout. When I asked him why, he said that it amused him that a Muslim a Jew and a Christian were all at a jazz concert together. He also told me not to drink spirits. I was quite young.