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The working-class girl with money in her pocket can be as chic as the deb. That's what Twiggy is all about.

CECIL BEATON, from Twiggy: A Life in Photographs, by Terence Pepper, Robin Muir, and Melvin Sokolsky, 2009.

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The Greatest Christmas Shoots In Vogue Through The Years

The best archive pictures of Christmas in Vogue from 1916 onwards.

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Terence Donovan Fashion

Edited by Diana Donovan and David Hillman Text by Robin Muir Foreword by Grace Coddington Designed by David Hillman

Thames & Hudson, London 2012, 240 pages, Hardback, clothbound,  109 colour and 67 b/w illustrations, ISBN 978-1-908970-02-2

euro 38,50

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Terence Donovan was one of the foremost photographers of his generation among the greatest Britain has ever produced. He came to prominence in London as part of a postwar renaissance in art, fashion, graphic design and photography. Alongside David Bailey and Brian Duffy, photographers of a similar working-class background and outlook, Donovan was a new force in fashion photography. Together, they captured and helped create the Swinging 60s. They socialized with celebrities and royalty, and found themselves elevated to stardom in their own right. Gifted with an unerring eye for the iconic image, Donovan was also master of his craft, a technical genius who pushed the limits of what was possible with a camera. And yet despite his fame and status, there has never been a publication devoted to his fashion work, for he allowed none to be released during his lifetime. Terence Donovan Fashion is thus the first time his fashion pictures have been collected together in book form. Arranged chronologically, from the gritty monochromatic 1960s and 1970s to the vibrant and colourful 1980s and 1990s, the book reveals how his constant invention and experimentation not only set him apart from his contemporaries, but also influenced generations to come. Contributions from some of the many designers, models and art directors who worked with him provide fascinating insights into his practice. Compiled by the artists widow Diana Donovan and former art director of Nova magazine and Pentagram partner David Hillman, who worked closely with Donovan for over a decade, and including an illuminating text by Robin Muir, ex-picture editor of Vogue, and foreword by Grace Coddington, creative director of American Vogue and advisor to the project, Terence Donovan Fashion is indisputably a landmark in the history of fashion photography.

04/04/20

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Lucian Freud with his sparrowhawk by Clifford Coffin, 1947 ..

‘The story behind the shot is rather fascinating. Freud enlisted into the Merchant Navy in 1941 and was invalided out after one voyage, when his ship the SS Baltrover was strafed by enemy fire. He was German, as we know, but had fled to Britain from Berlin in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism and settled in the Devon countryside. Did he want to express his gratitude? Maybe. Having been invalided out he came back and lived in relative poverty in a studio in central London which is where the picture was taken in 1947. He's in metropolitan London but he is really a boy from the country, holding a sparrowhawk which he feeds on rats which he shoots with a German Luger pistol traded for a painting. He is wearing his Merchant Navy issue sweater, probably his only presentable article of clothing. He wore it to meet Picasso.’ 

Robin Muir .. ‘An Interview with Robin Muir’.

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Vogue Model

Robin Derrick/Robin Muir

2010

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Under the Influence: John Deakin, Photography and the Lure of Soho

Under the Influence: John Deakin, Photography and the Lure of Soho by Robin Muir (Text), John Deakin (Photographs) Hardcover, 176 pages Published August 31st 2014 by Art / Books (first published July 31st 2014) ISBN:  1908970154 (ISBN13: 9781908970152)

If there is such a thing as raw genius then John Deakin had it, and then some. There is no photographer’s work and being itself that arouses me more than John Deakin’s.  It is little matter to me if his sickness made of him a bad boy, a drunk and irresponsible hire, or an impossible-to-handle apostate.  He was a gifted artist of the first rank.

Robin Muir has captured in his text a feeling for John Deakin that no others have before him.  His biography was the most detailed yet of any I have previously read and it was certainly well-written.  The amazing collection of photographs, handbills, and correspondence included in the book also attest to the truth behind any previously made innuendo. Rarely these days do new art books employ the use of weighty fine paper and quality cloth hardboards.  The publisher obviously spared no expense in the creation of this book.  This is a volume to be treasured and displayed with gratitude for all who were involved in the production of this fine artifact.