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, July 1975
NPG x210064
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 19 June 1975
NPG x210107
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 19 June 1975
NPG x210108
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 19 June 1975
NPG x210109
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 1975
NPG x210123
Ruby Braff and unknown guitarist
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 14 March 1975
NPG x210149
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 21 April 1975
NPG x210158
Bud Freeman; Ruby Braff; unknown man
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 14 March 1975
NPG x210159
Bud Freeman; Ruby Braff; unknown man
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 14 March 1975
NPG x210160
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 14 March 1975
NPG x210161
Red Rodney and two unknown men
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 19 March 1975
NPG x210164
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 19 March 1975
NPG x210165
Sir William Menzies Coldstream
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, August 1975
NPG x4117
Sir William Menzies Coldstream; Ian Evers Tregarthen Jenkin
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, August 1975
NPG x4118
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, July 1975
NPG x4119
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, July 1975
NPG x4116
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 1975
NPG x4114
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, 1975
NPG x4115
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, late 1970s
NPG x210029
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, late 1970s
NPG x210031
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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.