NEIL LIBBERT – PHOTOJOURNALIST
2012-09-17This display focuses on key works from 1958 – 1984, many on show for the first time, and includes two portraits that were used on the front page of the Guardian newspaper. One of these photographs is of conservative politician and statesman, Sir Winston Churchill, with Sir Charles Wheeler, President of the Royal Academy, taken in 1963. The other cover photograph is of actress Jayne Mansfield, union leader Ted Hill, President of the Amalgamated Engineering Union William Carron, and general secretary of the Labour party, Morgan Philips. Other portraits on display are of novelist Kingsley Amis, artists Francis Bacon and Edward Burra, footballer George Best, photographer Patrick Lichfield, actors Helen Mirren and Paul Robeson, and playwright Harold Pinter.
Opposite – Kingsley Amis, 27 April 1961
Exhibition runs through till April 21st, 2013
National Portrait Gallery
St Martin’s Place
London
WC2H 0HE
