Primrose Osborne (née Salt)

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Primrose Osborne (née Salt)

by Paul Tanqueray
vintage bromide print, 1933
9 3/4 in. x 7 3/4 in. (248 mm x 198 mm)
Given by Paul Tanqueray, 1975
Photographs Collection
NPG x22344

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  • Paul Tanqueray (1905-1991), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 186 portraits, Sitter in 8 portraits.

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Debutante of the Year, Primrose Salt, is shown here with her fashionable Eton crop hairstyle. Using a spotlight and light reflected from an umbrella, Tanqueray created an atmosphere of style and glamour, with a visual language directly influenced by Hollywood still photography and cinema.

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  • 100 Photographs, 2018, p. 67 Read entry

    From the mid-1920s Paul Tanqueray (1905-91) was one of London’s leading studio portrait photographers, and his work appeared regularly in society and illustrated magazines. A former student of portrait photographer Hugh Cecil, Tanqueray set up his own studio in London at 139 Kensington High Street before moving to 8 Dover Street in 1930. ‘Debutante of the Year’ Primrose Salt (1915-2005) is shown with her fashionable Eton crop. Using a spotlight and light reflected from an umbrella, Tanqueray created an atmosphere of style and glamour, with a visual language directly influenced by Hollywood still-photography and cinema.

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Current affairs

Sir Norman Angell is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Angell was recognised for his book, Europe's Optical Illusion (or The Great Illusion) first published in 1910 and updated in 1933, which argued that war between modern powers was futile as neither the looser or victor would gain economically from it.

Art and science

British Art embraces abstraction with the establishment of 'Unit 1', the first group of British Artists dedicated to producing abstract art. The critic Herbert Read formed the group by bringing together the artists Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Paul Nash and the architect, Wells Coates.
The Duveen Wing extension at the National Portrait Gallery is opened by King George V.

International

The Nazi party comes to power in Germany as part of a coalition government with Hitler as Chancellor. Over the next year, the party consolidated its position through the Enabling Act (allowing them to pass legislation without the support of the coalition), by banning and purging opposition, and by making Hitler Führer in 1934: granting him the combined powers of Chancellor and President.

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