Samuel Cooper and his contemporaries

Arts & Photography

Foskett, Daphne

Cooper, Samuel

National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)

History & Criticism

Her Majesty"s Stationery Office

Printed in England for Her Majesty's Stationary Office by Ebenezer Baylis &amp; Sons Ltd. Worcester in 1977

Royal faces: 900 years of British monarchy

H.M.S.O.

National Portrait Gallery in colour

St.Martin's Press

The Beautiful and the Damned looks for the first time at the broad social and cultural context for the development of portrait photography in the nineteenth century, showing how social and celebrity portraiture on the one hand, and scientific photography on the other, were different facets of the nineteenth-century fascination with classification and ordering. Between 1860 and 1900, editions of celebrity portraits, as well as the vogue for the carte de visite, fuelled the fashion for collecting and classifying photographs of the face. In an age of rapid industrialisation and the growth of the middle classes, the carte de visite became a means of conferring social status, and family albums - which often incorporated photographs of royalty and public figures - were used to position family members within society at large.

Beautiful and the Damned: The Creation of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Photography

Hamilton, Peter

Hargreaves; Roger

Photography & Video

Lund Humphries Pub Ltd

Treasures in the National Portrait Gallery

The Gallery

A comprehensive, illustrated catalogue of every painting, drawing, miniature, photograph and work of sculpture in the main collection of the National Portrait Gallery at the time of going to press. It represents the most extensive survey of British portraiture in existence.

National Portrait Gallery: Complete illustrated catalogue, 1856-1979

Published to mark the 150th anniversary of the invention of photography, this companion volume to "The National Portrait Gallery Collection" contains a selection of 150 photographs from the Gallery's collection. This comprehensive survey of British portrait photography features the work of 150 eminent photographers including Julia Margaret Cameron, Nadar, Man Ray, Bill Brandt, Edward Steichen and Helmut Newton. The selection contains photographs produced using a wide range of photographic processes, including daguerreotypes, salted paper prints, ambrotypes, platinum prints and stereo daguerreotypes all faithfully reproduced in colour according to their original appearance. There is an introductory essay on the origins and development of the Gallery's photographic collection, and short biographies of sitters and photographers. This accompanies an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in October 1989.

Camera portraits: Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery, 1839-1989

Published to mark the 150th anniversary of the invention of photography, this companion volume to "The National Portrait Gallery Collection" contains a selection of 150 photographs from the Gallery's collection. This comprehensive survey of British portrait photography features the work of 150 eminent photographers including Julia Margaret Cameron, Nadar, Man Ray, Bill Brandt, Edward Steichen and Helmut Newton. The selection contains photographs produced using a wide range of photographic processes, including daguerreotypes, salted paper prints, ambrotypes, platinum prints and stereodaguerreotypes all faithfully reproduced in colour according to their original appearance. There is an introductory essay on the origins and development of the Gallery's photographic collection, and short biographies of sitters and photographers. This accompanies an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in October 1989.

The Raj: India and the British, 1600-1947

History

Asia

National Portrait Gallery Publications

'Battle is in the curve of their nostrils', wrote Arnold Bennett of the Sitwells. 'They issue forth from their bright pavilions and demand trouble.' Poets, patrons of the arts and ardent self-publicists, the three siblings, Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell, rarely missed an opportunity to promote themselves or denounce their sworn enemy, the philistine.They were natural subjects, and targets for the media. Unconventional, aristocratic, physically imposing (all more than six feet tall), they were bold, talented and provocative, and there were three of them. This book celebrates their lives and their artistic crusade, which brought them into contact and conflict with many of the leading figures of the arts in the early part of this century. Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and Evelyn Waugh were among their friends; their favourite enemies included Wyndham Lewis, Noel Coward and D. H. Lawrence.

The Sitwells and the Arts of the 1920s and 1930s: National Portrait Gallery, London

Natl Portrait Gallery Pubns

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