AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatarThese Coronation portraits are regal – but not quite naturalThe Telegraph - Alastair SookeThe official Coronation portraits have been unveiled, and they are an exercise in proficiency: polished, and suggestive of the best wedding photography. This is no surprise: I notice that Hugo Burnand, the British photographer responsible for them, also documented the nuptials of the then-Prince of …
AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatarABANDONED ALASKA, by Paul ScannellThe Telegraph - by Paul ScannellIn the summer of 2016, the Irish photographer headed to the Alaskan wilderness, where he spent several months residing on the outskirts of McCarthy, a remote, barely inhabited township. From here, he hiked daily to distant derelict cabins and glacier-side bunkhouses. Established in the early 1900s, …
AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatarSwinging Sixties photographer Terry O'Neill dies of prostate cancer aged 81The Telegraph - Telegraph ReportersThe British photographer Terry O'Neill, one of the most famous documenters of the swinging Sixties, has died at the age of 81. O'Neill, who photographed everyone from Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn to The Beatles, Faye Dunaway and, latterly, Nelson Mandela and the Queen, died at his home last …
AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatarTim Walker - Wonderful Things review, V&A: a collaboration that seems to benefit no oneThe Telegraph - Alastair SmartThe 19thcentury art critic John Ruskin was no fan of the V&A. He called it a “Cretan labyrinth”, so rammed with artworks he had “to be put in the charge of a policeman to get out”. The present-day photographer, Tim Walker, has a different view, calling the museum “a palace of dreams”. In 2016, he …
AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatarTim Walker’s astonishing pictures inspired by the V&A’s treasuresThe TelegraphTaking photographs, to me, is really a kind of dream state,” says the English photographer Tim Walker. “As you tour your imagination, you want to photograph what you are seeing. You are so very keen to be able to show what you’ve seen that somehow it becomes true, and the picture you end up taking …
AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatar‘You don’t realise you’re exposing yourself’: Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, and Nicole Kidman on posing for Peter LindberghThe Telegraph - Telegraph WritersThis article was originally published in January 2018. Peter Lindbergh has died aged 74. Known for his cinematic images, Peter Lindbergh is recognised as one of the most influential contemporary photographers and the man who created the supermodels. Here seven actors pay tribute to the German. Kate …
AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatar30 years on: Tiananmen Square through the lens of Jeff Widener, author of the iconic 'Tank Man' photographThe Telegraph
AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatarIf it feels so right, why does kissing look so wrong?The Telegraph - Gaby WoodOnce upon a time, in a land not far from here, many of the Queen’s subjects had the same poster on their walls. It was a black and white photograph of a couple kissing, apparently while walking in the street, the swoosh of their stride echoing the tilt of romance. It was taken by the Frenchman …
AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatarMeet the photographer recreating some of the most dramatic episodes in the River Thames pastThe Telegraph - Lucy DaviesFrom an Edwardian swimming sensation to the women who built Waterloo Bridge, fine-art photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten is recreating some of the most dramatic episodes of the Thames’ past. Hanging in Julia Fullerton-Batten’s wardrobe at home in Chiswick, west London, are a pair of waders. Not the …