Fine Art Archive
#FineArtFriday – Pin-Ups, by Justin de Villeneuve
#FineArtFriday – Frank Sinatra, by Terry O’Neill
“It was Ava Garder who was my entrée to Frank Sinatra’s world. If it hadn’t been for Ava, I’m not sure I would have ever gotten the chance to photograph Frank, let alone get to know him—even just a little—behind the scenes.”
Read the full article#FineArtFriday – Jump!, by Norman Parkinson
But it was one shot in particular, of model Pamela Minchin, clad in a Fortnum & Mason swimsuit, jumping from a breakwater on to a beach on the Isle of Wight in July 1939, that would become one of the most seminal images of the iconic photographers career.
Read the full article#FineArtFriday – Sean Connery, by Terry O’Neill
When working with an archive as expansive as Terry O’Neill’s, we often find that some negatives and prints were either lost or sold. As luck would have it, Iconic Images recently rediscovered a fantastic photograph of Sean Connery taken on the set of ‘Diamond are Forever’ in 1971.
Read the full article#FineArtFriday – Lemmy, by Terence Donovan
The series of compelling, pared-back studio portraits were published in the December issue of GQ and proved to be Donovan’s last significant body of work. Echoing his early days photographing the movers and shakers of the 1960s, it seems apt that Donovan was again documenting some of the figureheads of the second incarnation of ‘Swinging London’.
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