Exhibitor

Iconic Images

London

UK

Iconic Images owns and represents the archives of some of the world’s most celebrated photographers, exhibiting their work around the globe from Los Angeles to Shanghai. Iconic’s latest acquisition, the fashion archive of the great Norman Parkinson comprises over half a million negatives from the 1930s to his death in 1990. Dubbed the "giant of fashion" by the New York Times few of his images have been exhibited. Iconic Images will be revealing vintage and original prints that have lain undiscovered for generations, as well as new modern editions from the archive of its artists. The exhibition will feature: They Shot the Sixties, When Fashion Leapt off the Page and How Hollywood Lost its Virginity.

Norman Parkinson

British actress Audrey Hepburn during a photoshoot for US Vogue magazine, on 24th January 1952.

1952

Norman Parkinson

American model and actress Carmen Dell’Orefice, photographed in the Vogue magazine ‘Beauty Book’, 1953

1953

Norman Parkinson

Vogue, 1949.

1949

Norman Parkinson

First Nude in colour, Vogue Beauty Book, 1951.

1951

Norman Parkinson

British fashion model Wenda Parkinson photographed for the British Vogue Cover, June 1954.

1954

Norman Parkinson

Naty Abascal, the Duchess of Feria, photographed with her black statllion ‘Idle Ruler’ in Barbados for Town & Country magazine, in 1982. Previous Back to in Next

1982

Norman Parkinson

Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez and American model Jerry Hall photographed in Jamaica for Vogue magazine, 1975.

1975

Terry O'Neill

Brigitte Bardot with Cigar on the set of ‘Les Petroleuses’ a.k.a. ‘The Legend of Frenchie King’, directed by Christian-Jaque in Spain, 1971.

1971

Douglas Kirkland

Sophia Loren in the costume of her role as Aldonza in ‘Man of La Mancha’, Rome, 1972

1972

Douglas Kirkland

American actress, model and singer Marilyn Monroe poses naked in bed for photographer Douglas Kirkland on the evening of November 17th 1961 in Los Angeles. Douglas Kirkland, then aged 24, photographed the icon and sex symbol for his first major assignment for Look magazine, one of the most celebrated photo-shoots ever with the iconic sex symbol.

1961