"The Royals were far from the only famous people Snowdon shot—he travelled the wold and shot celebrities all over. "He very much liked to work in daylight if he could. We'll need your email address so that we can follow up on the information provided and contact you to let you know when your contribution has been published.National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HENational Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE (1930-2017), Photographer, film-maker and designer; former husband of Princess Margaret It was his little joke, and he often had little jokes. Born Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, Armstrong-Jones studied architecture at Cambridge, failed to receive his diploma, and then jumped into the fashion photography industry. Find out more > Use this image; Lord Snowdon. Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones's love story serves as a plot point in The Crown. Today, he thinks, it's almost lost.Good thing for Snowdon, he had a foot in both camps. "They cannot help but perform for the camera; they've been so well trained. Snowdon seemed to revel in the notoriety his 1960 marriage to Princess Margaret afforded him. He wanted them to look right; he wanted them to look real. Robert Muir, curator and contributing editor to It's that apparent contradiction between authenticity and contrivance that made Snowdon so well-suited to photograph his new family, as he did with Queen Elizabeth and her grandson Peter Phillips in this 1978 portrait.Before Snowdon, Cecil Beaton had been the royals' go-to portraitist. See 50+ photos of their relationship right here. He was the husband of Princess Margaret from 1960 to 1978. by Anthony Buckley, for Camera Press bromide press print, 1958 NPG x194449. Here's what it looked like in real life. He claimed it was his interest in gadgets that first drew him to cameras, but he wouldn't commit to a career behind the lens until pursuing, then flunking out of, an architecture program. For his Wallace and Snowdon spent years together reporting on how the disabled and mentally ill lived in Britain, with their families and in institutions—work that would lead Wallace to found SANE (an acronym for Schizophrenia: A National Emergency), an organization for which she still serves as chief executive. After being commissioned to take personal family photos for the royal family and being invited to shoot portraits at Buckingham Palace, Armstrong-Jones married Princess Margaret in 1960.Princess Margaret was the sister of Queen Elizabeth II and the daughter of King George VI, and her marriage to Armstrong-Jones was notable because it was extremely uncommon for such a prominent member of the royal family to marry outside of royalty or nobility.Through this first marriage, Armstrong-Jones took on the title of the 1st Earl of Snowdon (named after Over the next five decades, Snowdon became one of the UK’s most respected photographers, shooting various genres and segments of society, from celebrities and royalty to documenting mental illness and inner city life. Snowdon would use status to his advantage in both his life and his work, and after his death in 2017, at the age of 86, he left behind an impressive range of photographs, not just in the royal archives or in the pages of It's not possible to separate Snowdon's oeuvre from his royal biography—nor would he want that to happen. "He also helped to cement the idea of the glamorous photographer, Susanna Brown notes—a concept that's still very much around, and perhaps even more durable than the regal royal. That, combined with his genuine intimacy with his now-family, allowed him to … He knew his reputation was inseparable from that of the Windsors, Kinmonth says, and "it was something he was much more delighted with than disappointed by. His images were widely used by the world’s best-known publications and were also published in 14 photo books.“I think a photographer should be a chameleon, or a fly on the wall,” Snowdon was also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in the UK, one of the world’s oldest photographic societies.
The woman Snowdon captured is wiser, bolder, but still bright. "He reveled in the attention it brought. More prescient, even, is his portrait of Anthony Blunt. Lord Snowdon - Royal Collection Born Antony Armstrong Jones, March 7 1930, educated at Eton, Lord Snowdon began his career in 1952 as a society photographer for Tatler. For Tina Turner, it seems to have been her joyful, roguish beauty. See more ideas about Photography, Lord, Photo.
He always "saw himself enemy of hypocrisy and cant," Wallace says, "and he didn't like people in authority at all."