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Dec 15, 2019 · Lord Snowdon never aspired to "high art," whatever that is. He claimed it was his interest in gadgets that first drew him to cameras, but he wouldn't commit to a career behind the lens...
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Sep 6, 2020 · Hockney was one of a number of visual artists whom Snowdon shot for a 1965 book called Private View. Compiled by the critic John Russell and the curator Bryan Robertson, it examined why — in their view — London had become an art capital to rival Paris and New York.
Jan 17, 2017 · On October, 1961, Armstrong-Jones was named the Earl of Snowdon in recognition of his Welsh ancestry, and named after his favorite mountain, the highest in Wales. From that point on, Armstrong-Jones was best known professionally as Lord Snowdon.
During his first marriage, Snowdon was patron of the National Youth Theatre, the Contemporary Art Society for Wales, the Welsh Theatre Company, and the Civic Trust for Wales. [29] He was also President of the British Theatre Museum. [29] He was provost of the Royal College of Art from 1995 to 2003.
Jan 13, 2017 · Snowdon – then working on Private View, his coffee-table book on contemporary artists (now a valuable period record of 1960s art) – was annoyed at having to fit his work in with her royal tours.
Snowdon was influential in bringing an informal approach to royal portraiture. His post-war fashion photographs were credited for ‘enlivening’ Vogue, for which he has been working for over six decades.
Jan 13, 2017 · He never completed his course on architecture, and at 21 took up photography as a career, setting up a studio of his own in London. It was his flair for taking less formal photographs that...
