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Shane MacGowan

4 of 4 portraits of Shane MacGowan

© Andrew Catlin / National Portrait Gallery, London

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Shane MacGowan

by Andrew Catlin
toned bromide print, 1989
9 3/8 in. x 9 1/4 in. (237 mm x 235 mm) image size
Given by Andrew Catlin, 2007
Photographs Collection
NPG x128834

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  • Shane MacGowan (1957-2023), Musician; member of The Pogues. Sitter in 4 portraits.

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  • Andrew Catlin (1960-), Photographer. Artist or producer of 23 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.

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Current affairs

96 people are crushed to death at the Hillsborough football stadium in Sheffield. The accident took place when Liverpool fans were all let into the stadium at once. Incoming crowds crushed people against a fence used to prevent pitch-invasions. Following the Taylor Report into the incident standing terraces and fences between fans and pitch were banned.

Art and science

Following the publication of Anglo-Indian writer Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses in 1988, the leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, announces that the book is 'blasphemous against Islam' and places a fatwah (death sentence) on Rushdie, who is forced into hiding for several years.

International

The Berlin Wall is dismantled, reunifying East and West Germany and symbolising the end of the Cold War. Following a decision to allow East Berliners to cross the border with valid visas, crowds swarmed the border crossings. Guards soon gave up trying to stop them, and the physical dismantlement of the wall soon began.
Approximately 2,000 Chinese demonstrators are massacred in Tiananmen Square while protesting against the government.

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Andrew Catlin

07 July 2020, 01:41

This picture was shot in a hotel room in Oporto at around 6am after 48 hours without sleep.
It is one of a complex series of pictures from just a few minutes of time, that have featured on multiple record sleeves, books, magazines and films. A collision of portraiture, reportage and perception.