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, 1970s
NPG x210170
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 1970s
NPG x210173
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 10 August 1970
NPG x210174
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 1970s
NPG x210175
Henry Cohen, Ben Webster and John Kendall
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 7 October 1970
NPG x210176
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 1970s
NPG x210177
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 10 August 1970
NPG x210178
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 10 August 1970
NPG x210179
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 10 August 1970
NPG x210180
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 4 September 1970
NPG x210181
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 28 September 1970
NPG x210308
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, December or January 1970
NPG x210309
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 5 January 1970
NPG x210315
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 1970s
NPG x210316
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 1971
NPG x210110
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, June 1971
NPG x210182
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 29 June 1971
NPG x210310
Wally Falkes; Alan Littlejohn; Bill Coleman; Bruce Turner; John Chilton
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 24 October 1971
NPG x210184
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 17 September 1971
NPG x210312
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 23 September 1971
NPG x210313
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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.