Angus McBean

© Peter Everard Smith

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Angus McBean

by Peter Everard Smith
bromide fibre print, 19 May 1987
11 1/2 in. x 8 7/8 in. (292 mm x 228 mm)
Given by Lewis Morley, 1992
Photographs Collection
NPG x38394

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  • Angus McBean (1904-1990), Photographer. Sitter in 79 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 283 portraits.

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  • Peter Everard Smith (1943-), Photographer. Artist or producer of 8 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.

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McBean is photographed holding the mask he made for Ivor Novello in The Happy Hypocrite. The photographer Pete Smith was commissioned to take this photograph by Arts East magazine and this was the second occasion on which he met Angus McBean. From 1969 to 1972 Smith worked from McBean's former studio in Endell Street, with his fashion designer wife, Mog.

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  • Pepper, Terence, Angus McBean Portraits, 2006 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 5 July to 22 October 2006), p. 1

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Current affairs

Hurricane-force winds batter southern England, blowing-down trees, and damaging buildings, blocking roads and causing 19 deaths. The storm was not predicted by the Met Office, a fact that is often jeeringly referred to by quoting Michael Fish's response to a report that 'there was a hurricane on the way…don't worry… there isn't' (the report was actually referring to Florida, not the UK).

Art and science

Alan Bennett's series of monologues Talking Heads is aired by the BBC. The series featured a set of characters that show the secret lives of the English: their dreams, frustrations, and fantasies. The impressive cast included Dame Thora Hird, Patricia Routledge, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters and Bennett himself.

International

The second largest ever one-day percentage decline in the stock market is named Black Monday. The Dow Jones index in the USA dropped dramatically followed by similar drops around the world. It is still unclear what exactly caused the crash, although worldwide panic selling certainly made it escalate.
Terry Waite is taken hostage while trying to negotiate the release of four men held by the Islamic Jihad in Beirut.

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