| John Swannell Patrick Lichfield, David Bailey and Terence Donovan 1980 Gelatin silver print 37 x 29.8 cm National Galleries of Scotland Acc. No. PGP 180.17, © Photograph by John Swannell, Camera Press London LL/56801 (Curatorial caption, accessed 23 November 2014)
Here we see three of the best known British photographers of the twentieth century. Bailey (1938) and Donovan (1936 – 1996) are two of the photographers known for capturing London in the 1960s; photographing the life of celebrity and high fashion. The third, Lichfield (1939 – 2005), is perhaps best known for taking the official photographs at the wedding of the Prince and Princess of Wales in 1981. All three emerged as photographers at a time when celebrity culture was at its height and became celebrities themselves. This photograph was taken for an Olympus advert.
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