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Julie Christie

Photograph
1962 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Terence Daniel Donovan (photographer)
Place of origin
London (photographed)

Vintage gelatin silver print mounted on black card.


Object details

Categories
Fashion
Photographs
Object type
Photograph
TitleJulie Christie (generic title)
Materials and techniques
photography
Paper
Gelatin Silver Process
Photography
Brief description
Fashion photograph of actress Julie Christie, by Terence Donovan, London, 1962
Physical description
Vintage gelatin silver print mounted on black card.
Dimensions
  • Image width: 16.2cm
  • Image height: 25cm
  • Paper width: 38cm
  • Paper height: 30.3cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • [Photographer's stamp] (On reverse)
  • 'Julie Christie' (Pencil, on reverse.)
  • '3-17' (Pencil, on reverse.)
  • '2' (Red pencil, on reverse.)
Production
"Women Throooo the Eyes of Smudger Terence Donovan" was the first of only three books of Terence Donovan's photographs published in his lifetime. ("Smudger" a Fleet Street term for photographer, derived from the instability of the black inks used in newspaper reproduction of pictures). The negatives to these images only surfaced recently so they will be shown for the first time in Albemarle Street. The small book of seventeen images was published in 1964, part of a series "Essays in Design" and made in conjunction with the newly formed British Design and Art Directors Guild. The idea was to highlight advances and inventiveness in graphic design and photography. The publications were issue quarterly, but the series was short lived, and they remain scarce.

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Subject depicted
Julie Frances Christie
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.330-2011

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Record createdJune 8, 2011
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1223464/julie-christie-photograph-terence-daniel-donovan/
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