Howard Coster
(1885-1959), PhotographerSitter in 5 portraits
Artist associated with 9349 portraits
Howard Coster was born in London on 27 April 1885. He was introduced to photography through his uncle who owned a photographic studio where Coster worked before he moved to South Africa to try his hand at farming. After serving in the RAF during the war he worked in a studio in South Africa where he met his future wife Joan Burr, who was also a photographer. In 1926 they moved London and opened a studio on Essex Street. Coster quickly received commissions and began to use the credit line 'Coster, Photographer of Men'. Over the next twenty years he photographed most of the leading figures in politics, literature and the arts and his work was frequently published in magazines. The National Portrait Gallery holds around 8,000 negatives, 2,000 prints, 12 albums and archive material from the Coster studio and in 1985 held a retrospective of Coster’s work.
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1927
NPG Ax3461
by Howard Coster
print, circa 1927
NPG x10667
Lewis S. Benjamin (Lewis Melville)
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1927
NPG Ax2255
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1927
NPG Ax2259
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1927
NPG Ax2266
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1927
NPG Ax2268
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1927
NPG Ax2269
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1927
NPG Ax2270
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1927
NPG Ax2271
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1927
NPG Ax2272
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1927
NPG Ax2276
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1927
NPG Ax2279
George Herbert Fosdike Nichols
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1927
NPG x22831
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1927
NPG Ax136085
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1927
NPG Ax136102
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1927
NPG Ax136103
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1927
NPG Ax2256
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1927
NPG Ax2258
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x11089
Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x11116
Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x11117
Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x11118
Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x11119
Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x11120
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x11718
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x11719
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x11720
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x11721
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, circa 1927
NPG x12003
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, circa 1927
NPG x12026
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, circa 1927
NPG x12027
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x13646
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x13647
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x13648
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x13649
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x13650
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x13651
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x13652
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x13653
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x13654
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x13655
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x3192
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x3215
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x3220
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x3221
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x3222
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x3390
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x3392
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x3393
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x3394
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
NPG x79055
by Howard Coster
toned bromide print on textured paper, 1927
NPG Ax2277
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1928
NPG Ax2301
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Jane Liddell-King
22 July 2020, 20:17
He photographed L. Susan Stebbing who was educated at Girton College and became the first woman to hold a Chair in Philosophy in Britain. She wa also the first woman president of the Humanists in the UK.