Farewell to Terry O'Neill, the photographer of swinging London

Famed photographer Terry O’Neill, known to most as the photographer of swinging London in the 1960s, has died in London at the age of eighty-one. Born in Romford, on the outskirts of London, in 1938, Terence Patrick O’Neill (that was his full name) began his career as a photographer at London’s Heathrow Airport in the 1950s before being hired, in 1959, at The Daily Sketch newspaper, for which he photographed London life of the time. He specialized mainly in jet set photography, and his camera took pictures of artists such as the Beatles, David Bowie, Elton John, Judy Garland, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, and he also failed to capture royalty (including Queen Elizabeth II) and various politicians (such as Winston Churchill and Nelson Mandela).

Terry O’Neill thus became one of the most famous celebrity photographers in the world: his work includes those devoted to the protagonists of James Bond films, from Sean Connery to Daniel Craig, features on the world of music (in addition to those already mentioned, his portraits of Amy Winehouse are famous) and film (one need only recall his photographs of Nicole Kidman). His work has been shown in various exhibitions around the world: the consecration between 2003 and 2004 with the exhibition Terry O’Neill: Celebrity at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Farewell to Terry O'Neill, the photographer of swinging London

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