Mayotte Magnus
(1934-), Photographer; wife of Jorge ('J.S.') LewinskiSitter in 2 portraits
Artist of 82 portraits
French born wife of Jorge Lewinski. She took up photography in 1970, winning a major Ilford photographic prize in 1972. Magnus became a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 1973. She had a one-woman show at F.N.A.C., Paris in 1974. The National Portrait Gallery held an exhibition of her photographs of eminent British women in 1977 entitled Women and Magnus had work included in Women's Images of Men in 1981 at the ICA, London. She has collaborated with her husband Jorge Lewinski in a series of photographically illustrated books.
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by Mayotte Magnus
bromide print, July 1977
NPG x18643
by Mayotte Magnus
bromide print, September 1977
NPG x18633
by Mayotte Magnus
colour print on card mount, May 1977
NPG x18655
Una Margaret Patricia Kroll; Linda Mary Evans
by Mayotte Magnus
bromide print, April 1977
NPG x18620
by Mayotte Magnus
bromide print, June 1977
NPG x18613
Megan Patricia Bull (Lady Bull)
by Mayotte Magnus
bromide print, September 1977
NPG x18646
Nicola Frances LeFanu; Dame Elizabeth Maconchy (Dame Elizabeth LeFanu)
by Mayotte Magnus
bromide print, April 1977
NPG x18623
by Mayotte Magnus
modern bromide print from original negative, 1978
NPG x138809
by Mayotte Magnus
modern bromide print from original negative, 1978
NPG x138811
by Mayotte Magnus
modern bromide print from original negative, 1978
NPG x138816
by Mayotte Magnus
modern bromide print from original negative, 1978
NPG x138822
by Mayotte Magnus
modern bromide print from original negative, 1978
NPG x138829
by Mayotte Magnus
modern bromide print from original negative, 1981
NPG x138808
by Mayotte Magnus
modern bromide print from original negative, 1981
NPG x138813
by Mayotte Magnus
modern bromide print from original negative, 1989
NPG x138810
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