guest search
all of the words
any of the words
the exact phrase
home
-
gallery package
- John Hedgecoe: Portraits
Gallery Package - John Hedgecoe: Portraits
Click on a thumbnail for preview and caption information
1066595
1028112
1009513
1009529
1028868
1008359
1008368
1009544
1011569
1009551
1011436
1024792
1009532
1026315
1009556
1008373
1017622
1011442
1009699
1014678
1025837
1026586
1066402
1011754
1073901
1017602
1009023
1011502
1017704
1028834
1011501
1044795
1008375
1009550
1009515
1008392
1026568
1026477
1022380
1027105
1019338
1011593
1022490
1074898
1009534
1011697
1011407
1019341
1073859
1076658
1073911
1045730
1043865
1022379
1022371
1016234
1011691
1011606
1011580
1011548
1011458
![Portrait by John Hedgecoe - Sir John Betjeman in 1972 - Sir John Betjeman CBE (28 August 1906 - 19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack". He was born to a middle class family in Edwardian London. Although he failed his degree at Oxford University, his early ability in writing poetry and interest in architecture would support him throughout his life. He wrote poetry throughout his life; starting his career as a lowly journalist, he ended it as British Poet Laureate and a much loved figure on British television.<br>©2006 John Hedgecoe/TopFoto](images/thumbs/1008359.jpg "Portrait by John Hedgecoe - Sir John Betjeman in 1972 - Sir John Betjeman CBE (28 August 1906 - 19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack\". He was born to a middle class family in Edwardian London. Although he failed his degree at Oxford University, his early ability in writing poetry and interest in architecture would support him throughout his life. He wrote poetry throughout his life; starting his career as a lowly journalist, he ended it as British Poet Laureate and a much loved figure on British television.<br>©2006 John Hedgecoe/TopFoto")
![Portrait by John Hedgecoe - E M Forster - writer - 1969 - Edward Morgan Forster (January 1, 1879 - June 7, 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He is most famous for his novels, most of which have been filmed. Forster is also known for a creed of life which can be summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End, "Only connect". A certain amount of controversy relates to the fact that Forster was homosexual but did not make this fact public during his lifetime.<br>©2006 John Hedgecoe/TopFoto](images/thumbs/1008368.jpg "Portrait by John Hedgecoe - E M Forster - writer - 1969 - Edward Morgan Forster (January 1, 1879 - June 7, 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He is most famous for his novels, most of which have been filmed. Forster is also known for a creed of life which can be summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End, "Only connect\". A certain amount of controversy relates to the fact that Forster was homosexual but did not make this fact public during his lifetime.<br>©2006 John Hedgecoe/TopFoto")
![Portrait by John Hedgecoe - Vita Sackville-West in 1958. - The Hon Vita Sackville-West [1] [2] (March 9, 1892 - June 2, 1962) was an English poet, novelist and gardener. Her long narrative poem, The Land, won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927. She won it again, the only writer to do so, in 1933 with her Collected Poems. She helped create her own gardens in Sissinghurst, Kent which provide the backdrop to Sissinghurst Castle. She was famous for her exuberant aristocratic life, her strong marriage, and her passionate affairs with women.<br>©2006 John Hedgecoe/TopFoto](images/thumbs/1009532.jpg "Portrait by John Hedgecoe - Vita Sackville-West in 1958. - The Hon Vita Sackville-West [1] [2] (March 9, 1892 - June 2, 1962) was an English poet, novelist and gardener. Her long narrative poem, The Land, won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927. She won it again, the only writer to do so, in 1933 with her Collected Poems. She helped create her own gardens in Sissinghurst, Kent which provide the backdrop to Sissinghurst Castle. She was famous for her exuberant aristocratic life, her strong marriage, and her passionate affairs with women.<br>©2006 John Hedgecoe/TopFoto")
![Portrait by John Hedgecoe - Elizabeth Jane Howard is an English novelist. She was born in London on 26 March 1923. She was an actress and a model before becoming a novelist. In 1951, she won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her first novel, The Beautiful Visit. Six further novels followed, before she embarked on her best known work, a four novel family saga set in wartime England. The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion, and Casting Off were serialised by BBC television as "The Cazalets". She has also written a book of short stories, Mr Wrong, and edited two anthologies. She married Sir Peter Scott in 1942; they had a daughter, Nicola, then divorced in 1951. A second marriage, to Jim Douglas-Henry in 1958, was brief. Her third marriage to novelist Kingsley Amis lasted from 1965 to 1983. Her autobiography, Slipstream, was published in 2002.<br>©2006 John Hedgecoe/TopFoto](images/thumbs/1017602.jpg "Portrait by John Hedgecoe - Elizabeth Jane Howard is an English novelist. She was born in London on 26 March 1923. She was an actress and a model before becoming a novelist. In 1951, she won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her first novel, The Beautiful Visit. Six further novels followed, before she embarked on her best known work, a four novel family saga set in wartime England. The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion, and Casting Off were serialised by BBC television as "The Cazalets\". She has also written a book of short stories, Mr Wrong, and edited two anthologies. She married Sir Peter Scott in 1942; they had a daughter, Nicola, then divorced in 1951. A second marriage, to Jim Douglas-Henry in 1958, was brief. Her third marriage to novelist Kingsley Amis lasted from 1965 to 1983. Her autobiography, Slipstream, was published in 2002.<br>©2006 John Hedgecoe/TopFoto")
![Portrait by John Hedgecoe - Peter Blake with his first wife Jann Haworth in 1962 - With them is the curious stuffed figure they called "Grandfather". Blake was designing pop images with Richard Hamilton back in the 1950s. Later he founded the Ruralist group of artists, living in a converted railway station at Wellow in Somerset - a romantic pastoral lifestyle that the Ruralists later abandoned. - Sir Peter Thomas Blake (born June 25, 1932) is a British pop artist, best known for his design of the sleeve for The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.<br>©2006 John Hedgecoe/TopFoto](images/thumbs/1009023.jpg "Portrait by John Hedgecoe - Peter Blake with his first wife Jann Haworth in 1962 - With them is the curious stuffed figure they called "Grandfather\". Blake was designing pop images with Richard Hamilton back in the 1950s. Later he founded the Ruralist group of artists, living in a converted railway station at Wellow in Somerset - a romantic pastoral lifestyle that the Ruralists later abandoned. - Sir Peter Thomas Blake (born June 25, 1932) is a British pop artist, best known for his design of the sleeve for The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.<br>©2006 John Hedgecoe/TopFoto")
![Portrait by John Hedgecoe - Sir Cecil Beaton in 1974 - Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (January 14, 1904 – January 18, 1980) was an English fashion and portrait photographer and a stage and costume designer for films and the theatre.<br>Educated at Harrow and St. John's College, Cambridge, Beaton picked up photography on his own. He taught himself the tricks of the trade as a young boy, taking the usual pictures of friends and family. At the end of his college career in 1925, he had set up his own successful photography studio. One of his earliest clients and, later, best friends was Stephen Tennant; Beaton's photographs of Tennant and his circle are considered some of the best representations of the "Bright Young Things" of the twenties and thirties.<br>©2006 John Hedgecoe/TopFoto](images/thumbs/1011593.jpg "Portrait by John Hedgecoe - Sir Cecil Beaton in 1974 - Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (January 14, 1904 – January 18, 1980) was an English fashion and portrait photographer and a stage and costume designer for films and the theatre.<br>Educated at Harrow and St. John's College, Cambridge, Beaton picked up photography on his own. He taught himself the tricks of the trade as a young boy, taking the usual pictures of friends and family. At the end of his college career in 1925, he had set up his own successful photography studio. One of his earliest clients and, later, best friends was Stephen Tennant; Beaton's photographs of Tennant and his circle are considered some of the best representations of the "Bright Young Things\" of the twenties and thirties.<br>©2006 John Hedgecoe/TopFoto")
![Portrait by John Hedgecoe - Lady Diana Cooper in her home - Lady Diana Manners (August 29, 1892 - June 16, 1986), later Lady Diana Cooper and then Diana, Viscountess Norwich, was the youngest daughter of Henry John Brinsley Manners, the 8th Duke of Rutland and his wife, Violet Lindsay, Duchess of Rutland, but was widely supposed to be the illegitimate daughter of Henry Cust. In her prime, she had the widespread reputation as the most beautiful young woman in England, and countless profiles, photographs and articles in newspapers and magazines made her very much the "Princess Diana" of her era. Her niece was Lady Rose McLaren and her nephew (Rose's brother), the 7th Marquess of Anglesey. She became active in The Coterie, an influential group of young English aristocrats and intellectuals of the 1910s whose influence and numbers were cut short by the First World War. <br>©2006 John Hedgecoe/TopFoto](images/thumbs/1043865.jpg "Portrait by John Hedgecoe - Lady Diana Cooper in her home - Lady Diana Manners (August 29, 1892 - June 16, 1986), later Lady Diana Cooper and then Diana, Viscountess Norwich, was the youngest daughter of Henry John Brinsley Manners, the 8th Duke of Rutland and his wife, Violet Lindsay, Duchess of Rutland, but was widely supposed to be the illegitimate daughter of Henry Cust. In her prime, she had the widespread reputation as the most beautiful young woman in England, and countless profiles, photographs and articles in newspapers and magazines made her very much the "Princess Diana\" of her era. Her niece was Lady Rose McLaren and her nephew (Rose's brother), the 7th Marquess of Anglesey. She became active in The Coterie, an influential group of young English aristocrats and intellectuals of the 1910s whose influence and numbers were cut short by the First World War. <br>©2006 John Hedgecoe/TopFoto")
