NORMAN PARKINSON
TIMELESS ACT A photographic retrospective of vintage and estate prints by Norman Parkinson together with the latest body of works by Molly Gaisford
Curated by Monica Colussi
Norman Parkinson The British photographer was a gentleman in life and in his extended photographic career. He had a formidable aesthetic eye, and with style he captured the sort of photographs that injected glamour to many prestigious magazines and in particular to the pages of Vogue. Parks (as almost everyone came to know him) shot unforgettable travels for British Vogue for years, going places fashion never went in the late sixties and seventies. Born in 1913, he went on to attend Westminster School before beginning his photographic career with an apprenticeship at court photographers Speaight and Sons Ltd in 1931. By 1934, Parkinson had built up a client base large enough to enable him to open his own studio, in Piccadilly, and freelanced for a number of top fashion magazines, among them Harper's Bazaar and Bystander. War broke out in September 1939 and Parkinson's talents were needed elsewhere and he joined the RAF, serving in a Pathfinder squadron as a reconnaissance photographer. In 1945, he returned to fashion and a job with Vogue during which he met and married model Wendy Rogerson. When at British Vogue many changes occurred in the way fashion shoots were conducted, with Parkinson spearheading a move from the studio to location. He posed his models on the beach, on the streets and in one iconic shot. Parkinson wasn't only about fashion. In 1975, he relocated from London to Tobago, his career came full circle when he was appointed a court photographer to the Queen. Taking over from Cecil Beaton, Parkinson went on to photograph all of the senior royals and produced a series of stunning portraits. He photographed, Audrey Hepburn, the Rolling Stones, HM the Queen, Princess Anne, the Queen Mother, Jerry Hall, Grace Coddington and an endless list of famous names. Partly as a result of his work, he was made a Commander of the British Empire in 1981. Aged just 76 at the time of his death, Parkinson, 'one of the great eccentrics of the photographic world' according to model Twiggy, died as he had lived, taking the photos he so loved.
A Hat from Harrods, 1938 Posthumous gelatin silver print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 in. 1/21 ÂŁ4,000 + VAT
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Watch in Warmth, British Vogue 1947 Posthumous gelatin silver print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 1/21 ÂŁ4,000 + VAT
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Driving in London, Vogue 1951 Posthumous gelatin silver print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 1/21 ÂŁ4,000 + VAT
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Gilded Summer, Vogue, 1965 Posthumous gelatin silver print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 2/21 ÂŁ2,000 + VAT
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Traffic, 1960s Posthumous C-Type print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 2/21 ÂŁ2,000 + VAT
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Queen of the Desert, Queen Magazine 1963 Posthumous gelatin silver print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 20x24 2/21 ÂŁ3,000 + VAT
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Paris in London, British Vogue, 1974 Posthumous gelatin silver print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 20x24 2/21 ÂŁ3,000 + VAT
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Paris in London, British Vogue, 1974 Posthumous gelatin silver print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 20x24 2/21
Vogue Fashion Feature, Portugal, 1973 Posthumous C-Type print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 2/21 ÂŁ2,000 + VAT
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Fashion image taken for the Jaeger calendar 1987/88 Posthumous C-Type print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 Display print ÂŁ4,000 + VAT
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Celia Hammond, Queen Magazine 1964 Posthumous gelatin silver print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 3/21 ÂŁ2,000 + VAT
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Celia Hammond, 1964 Posthumous gelatin silver print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 2/21 ÂŁ2,000 + VAT
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Celia Hammond, Queen, April 1964 Posthumous C-Type print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 1/21 ÂŁ4,000 + VAT
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Celia Hammond, Life Magazine, 1963 Posthumous C-Type print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 2/21 ÂŁ2,000 + VAT
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Chandrika Angadi in Saint Laurent, Vogue, July 1970 Posthumous gelatin silver print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 Display print ÂŁ4,000 + VAT
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Your Best Buy in a Coat, Dovima, 1949 Posthumous C-Type print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 1/21 ÂŁ4,000 + VAT
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Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall 1981, contact sheet Posthumous gelatin silver print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 20x24 1/21 ÂŁ6,000 + VAT
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Melanie Hampshire and Jill Kennington in Mary Quant, 1963 Posthumous gelatin silver print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 2/21 ÂŁ2,000 + VAT
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Jean Shrimpton, Queen 1962 Posthumous C-Type print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 2/21 ÂŁ2,000 + VAT
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Jan Ward, British Vogue, 1971 Posthumous gelatin silver print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 2/21 ÂŁ2,000 + VAT
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Nena von SchlebrĂźgge wearing a dress by Susan Small, 1958 Posthumous gelatin silver print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 1/21 ÂŁ4,000 + VAT
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Nena von SchlebrĂźgge in Balmain, Queen magazine, 1960 Posthumous gelatin silver print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 3/21 ÂŁ2,000 + VAT
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Nena von SchlebrĂźgge, Queen, 1960 Posthumous C-Type print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 20x24 2/21 ÂŁ3,000 + VAT
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Nena and the Sphinx, 1963 Posthumous gelatin silver print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 3/21 ÂŁ2,000 + VAT
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Pattie Boyd, British Vogue, August 1967 Posthumous gelatin silver print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 2/21 ÂŁ2,000 + VAT
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Jump II, 1939 Posthumous gelatin silver print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 5/21 ÂŁ2,000 + VAT
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Tilly Tizzani, Queen 1962 Posthumous C-Type print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 1/21 ÂŁ4,000 + VAT
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Wenda Parkinson, Vogue cover, June 1954 Posthumous C-Type print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 1/21 ÂŁ4,000 + VAT
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The Iron Road, 1947 Posthumous gelatin silver print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 3/21 ÂŁ2,000 + VAT
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Zulu War Dance, South Africa, Vogue 1951 Posthumous gelatin silver print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 5/12 ÂŁ2,000 + VAT
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Wenda in Dior, 1952 Posthumous gelatin silver print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 1/21 ÂŁ4,000 + VAT
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The New Look, London, 1949 Posthumous gelatin silver print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 3/21 ÂŁ2,000 + VAT
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Jane Birkin, Vogue, August 1966 Posthumous gelatin silver print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 2/21 ÂŁ2,000 +VAT
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How to Kill Five Stones with One Bird, Queen, 1964 Posthumous gelatin silver print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 2/21 ÂŁ2,000 + VAT
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Deborah Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire, and her two children, Peregrine and Emma, Vogue 1952 Posthumous gelatin silver print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse. 16x20 Display Print ÂŁ4,000 + VAT
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