Category Archives: Portraits

Apr 09

Lebrecht images of Margaret Thatcher – British Prime Minister 1979 -1990

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Obituary pictures for Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister from 1979-1990 died yesterday. (13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013)

Lebrecht has photos of her in her kitchen from Joe Bangay, in her home in 1973 by Brian Seed and posing in front of workers by Graham Gough.

Margaret Thatcher - portrait of the British politician and former Prime Minister in her London apartment, January 1973.
Margaret Thatcher in her London apartment, January 1973.
©Brian Seed

Margaret Thatcher with Husband Denis Thatcher
Photographed here with her husband Denis Thatcher outside their home in Flood Street Chelsea in 1970.
©Joe Bangay

' Handbagged ' play by Moira Buffini
‘Handbagged’ play by Moira Buffini, Stella Gonet (T) and Heather Craney (Mags) Tricycle Theatre, London.
©Tristram Kenton

Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher in her kitchen 1970 after becoming Minister of Education.
©Joe Bangay

Margaret Thatcher
Meeting workmen while visiting a building site in Coseley, West Midlands during September 1987.
©Graham Gough

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May 15

Author Pictures by Eamonn McCabe at Lebrecht

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As part of our continuing celebration of writers and creators, Lebrecht is proud to represent British Photographer Eamonn McCabe.

Throughout his career Eamonn McCabe has photographed many authors, poets and creators from all over the world, including Edmund de Waal, Etgar Keret, Nick Hornby, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Ruth Padel and Gao Xingjian.

British ceramic artist and author Edmund de Waal.

© Eamonn McCabe/Lebrecht Music & Arts

British poet journalist and former academic Ruth Padel photographed in her house at Kentish Town, London.

© Eamonn McCabe/Lebrecht Music & Arts

 

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Mar 09

Photographs by Lebrecht photographer, John Haynes, on display at Inverleith House in Edinburgh

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Lebrecht Photo Library has received wonderful reviews of an exhibition of John Haynes’ photographs,  currently being displayed as part of a show centring on the work of conceptual artist Luke Fowler:

“…The show is worth the visit just to see Haynes’s photo of Samuel Beckett. Sharp as a pin, Beckett’s face hangs against darkness looking more like some fierce bird from a David Attenborough documentary than a mere human being. It is an extraordinary image.” Duncan Macmillan, The Scotsman. Read the full review here.

“[Luke Fowler has] curated a selection of photographic portraits by John Haynes – including powerful renderings of the enigmatic face of Laing – which serve to complement his own works, as well as being beautiful in their own right: it is surprising that this is their first time presented in a fine art setting.” Delle Tomes, The Journal. Read the full review here.

Lebrecht Photo Library is very proud to represent John Haynes’ work, including his portraits of Beckett and R.D. Laing.  Search online at www.lebrecht.co.uk for more striking photographs  by John Haynes of these iconic writers.

 

Ronald D. Laing - portrait of the Scottish psychiatrist and writer

 

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Feb 02

Obituary images of Wislawa Szymborska, Polish writer and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature

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Wislawa Szymborska died yesterday at the age of 88. Through our partner collections in Poland and Germany, we have sourced some expressive portraits of the writer, who was described as the ‘Mozart of Poetry’ after starting to write poems aged four years old. Search online at www.lebrecht.co.uk for more pictures of Szymborska.

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Nov 02

How do you make music?

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Lebrecht Music & Arts photographers can answer the question with unusual rehearsal images of musicians at work, many of which are unique to our collection. Click on the picture below to see a series of images taken by our newest photographer, Laura Luostarinen, who captured these action shots of Valery Gergiev at the Mikkeli Music Festival in Finland:

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Nov 02

Patrick deWitt wins Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize

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Patrick deWitt, author of the genre-bending western ‘The Sisters Brothers’ captured the first major Canadian fiction prize of the year, when his novel won the $25,000 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize at an awards ceremony in Toronto last night.

The jury described the book as “unlike any you may read during this or the coming years” and “unforgettable.”

“It’s an honour that the judges saw fit to push it to the top,” said deWitt, moments after being named the winner. “They’re extending the life of my work, and you can’t put a price on that.”

For portraits of the author, search online at www.lebrecht.co.uk.

Patrick deWitt in London on 16 October 2011

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Oct 18

Patrick deWitt is nominated for the Man Booker Prize 2011, to be announced this evening

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Now online at www.lebrecht.co.uk, portraits of the Canadian writer, Patrick deWitt, who has been nominated for this year’s Man Booker Prize for his novel, ‘The Sisters Brothers’. The winner of the award will be announced this evening.

Patrick deWitt in London on 16 October 2011

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Sep 16

English National Opera’s production of The Passenger opening on 19 September 2011

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Lebrecht now has rarely seen photos of Polish Jewish composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg. His opera, The Passenger, will have its UK premiere on Monday 19th September at ENO in London.

The Passenger is based upon a semi-autobiographical novel by Auschwitz survivor Zofia Posmysz. It tells the story of an encounter between two women – one a former Auschwitz guard, the other a former prisoner – which plunges them both back into the horrors of the Holocaust, pitting perpetrator against victim in a moral battle between guilt and denial, retribution and absolution. The work was originally banned in the USSR because of its references to the Holocaust. The Passenger debuted at last year’s Bregenz Festival. Visit www.lebrecht.co.uk for a full range of images.

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Jul 26

New Lebrecht Photographer: Kobi Kalmanovitz

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Kobi Kalmanovitz’s portraiture is characterised by a unique and individualistic approach: sometimes quirky; sometimes startling; always vivid and engaging.

His subjects include: writers Amos Oz and David Grossman; musicians Naomi Shemer and Ofra Harnoy; dancer Yaron Barami; and politicans Tony Blair, Shimon Peres and Menachem Porush.

Search online under ‘Kobi Kalmanovitz’ at www.lebrecht.co.uk for a full selection of wonderful portraits.

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