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Celia Hammond

by Sandra Lousada
archival pigment print, 1962
15 7/8 in. x 11 7/8 in. (404 mm x 302 mm) image size
Purchased, 2011
Photographs Collection
NPG x135470

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  • Sandra Lousada (1938-), Photographer. Artist or producer of 44 portraits.

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An alternative pose from this sitting was published on the front cover of Queen magazine on 20 March 1962.

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  • 100 Photographs, 2018, p. 92 Read entry

    One of the top fashion models of the 1960s, Celia Hammond (b.1941) worked with most of the leading photographers of the era, including Norman Parkinson and Terence Donovan. She had trained alongside Jean Shrimpton at Lucie Clayton’s modelling school. From the early 1970s, Hammond gave up her career in modelling to devote herself to animal welfare. A variant pose from this sitting was published on the front cover of the 20 March 1962 edition of Queen magazine. As well as being a successful theatre and portrait photographer, London-born Sandra Lousada (b.1938) has worked in fashion and advertising.

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Current affairs

After a series of by-election defeats, the prime minister, Harold MacMillan organises a drastic cabinet reshuffle, dismissing one third of his cabinet. Liberal MP Jeremy Thorpe's wry comment summed up the desperate action: 'greater love hath no man than this, than to lay down his friends for his life.'
Britain suffers the 'Big Freeze' with no frost-free nights between 22nd December 1962 and 5th March 1963.

Art and science

The Beatles have their first hit with Love Me Do and release their first album Please Please Me.
The new Coventry Cathedral is consecrated and creates a showcase for British artistic talent with the first performance of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, a wall hanging by Graham Sutherland, stained glass by John Piper, and sculptures by Jacob Epstein and Elizabeth Frink.

International

The world comes to the brink of nuclear war with the Cuban Missile Crisis. In response to the USA's nuclear advantage, the USSR sent missiles to Cuba. The crisis lasted for 12 days before a deal was finally stuck between Khrushchev and Kennedy in which the Cuban missile bases were dismantled in return for the secret removal of US missiles from Turkey.

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