CHRIS BEETLES FINE PHOTOGRAPHS
Presents
PATRICK LICHFIELD
PERCEPTIONS
7 December 2011 – 7 January 2012
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Elizabeth Taylor photographing
Kent, 15 June 1968
Six years after Patrick Lichfield died of a stroke at the age of 66, his considerable legacy as a photographer is coming back into focus, with a major new retrospective (curated by the art historian Martin Harrison, who has also edited a forthcoming book of his work).
The launch of the retrospective book “Perceptions” Patrick, Earl of Lichfield (1939 – 2005) which celebrated new and unseen vintage prints of the former Royal Photographer on work of the Wednesday 23 November at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Knightsbridge, (London), is followed by an exhibition of key iconographic, new and unseen vintage prints and works at the Chris Beetles Fine Photographs Gallery (London).
Curated by art historian Martin Harrison and divided in to sections on Memory, Land, Empires, Cultures an Styles, Perceptions covers a career of 40 years from the 1950′s to 2005, over half of which images have been unseen.
Patrick Lichfield , the Queen’s cousin, began to take photographs from the age of eight years old. He was associated with the world of glamour and chic from the first of his first sessions for Life, Queen and Vogue magazines. Following his training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Lichfield utilised his illustrious entree to a world inaccessible to many to document the world around him through a series of unique images.
As the official photographer at the wedding of The Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer, Lichfield also documented the iconographic stars of the stage and screen, politicians, models and socialites to an astute observer of the period in which he lived, such as the East End of London and Speakers’ Corner.
Juxtaposing new and unseen work, vintage and iconographic pictures, the book provides a retrospective of images that includes an early photograph of Joanna Lumley of 1965 before the 19-year-old Lumley had risen to fame as an actress, Nicole Kidman photographed in Sydney in 1986, when the 19-year-old Australian actress had yet to become a Hollywood in addition to early pictures of the actresses Susannah York, Jacqueline Bisset and Angelica Huston also feature, alongside images of Mick Jagger and the actor Roger Moore, taken throughout Lord Lichfield’s career from the 1960s until his death from a stroke in 2005.
The exhibition of photographs (and limited edition prints) will be shown at the Chris Beetles Fine Photographs on 7 December and will run to 7 January 2012.
CHRIS BEETLES FINE PHOTOGRAPHS
3-5 Swallow Street London, W1B 4DE
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Posted on November 28, 2011 by Editors
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