25 of the most iconic and rare photographs of all time
Words: Gentleman's Journal
A Mayfair exhibition will feature over 80 rare vintage images from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s, including iconic images of movie stars, rock legends and major personalities of the period. Sourced from international archives, the photographs are very rare works of art documenting this period of history. Photographers include Terry O’Neill, Peter Basch, Helmut Newton, Cecil Beaton, Pierluigi Praturlon, Bunny Yeager and many other names from the history of the movie still photographers’ annals.
Vintage still of Paul Newman being chased by a bull for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1968.
Ringo Starr
Louis Armstrong visited Leopoldville in 1960 as part of a State Department sponsored goodwill mission. Armstrong was given a welcome of tribal dances, tom-tom bands and a song especially composed in his honour when he arrived for an open concert in Leopoldville on October 28, 1960.
Roger Moore in action in Live and Let Die, 1973.
Rare photograph of Marlon Brando as Grindl the mystic Indian in Christian Marquand’s 1969 film Candy.
Unusual and rare photograph of Winston Churchill feeding his pet white kangaroo, Digger, the only albino kangaroo in Europe, at London Zoo, Regents Park, 1948.
Very rare original vintage press photo of Christopher Reeve as Superman, 1978.
Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland were in Italy to film After the Fox, a part of which was shot on location in Ischia in the Bay of Naples, 1965.
Portrait of Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger dressed in a pinstripe suit, 1976, by Terry O’Neill.
English actress Charlotte Rampling shot by Terry O’Neill wearing a tweed jacket and trilby in February 1976, sitting on the porch of her Bel Air bungalow.
Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot and Claudia Cardinale take a rest from their ‘catfight’ on the set of Les Petroleuses, a.k.a. ‘The Legend of Frenchie King’, directed by Christian-Jaque in Spain, 1971.
Elvis Presley in Harum Scarum, 1965.
R2D2 and C3PO in Star Wars, 1977.
Roger Moore
Haunting picture of Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, a 20-year-old farm boy on the remote planet of Tatooine, 1977.
This is a rare photograph by Adam Holender of Dustin Hoffman as Ratso Rizzo in the critically-acclaimed film Midnight Cowboy, directed by John Schlesinger, 1968.
Michael Caine poses in this classic shot as Harry Palmer in Funeral in Berlin, a 1966 film directed by Guy Hamilton.
Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder in Dr. No (1962), shot by Bunny Yeager.
Julie Christie
Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, and Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca, tied up in George Lucas’ Return of the Jedi, 1983.
Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josey Wales.
This vintage photograph shows Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady (1956), which earned Cecil Beaton the Academy Award for Costume Design.
The Space Shuttle Endeavour being transported along the closed highway to the launch pad at the John F Kennedy Space Center, Florida, for its mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, 1993.
The Endeavour launch
These images are all available to buy at a one-week pop-up exhibition at 90 Piccadilly, Mayfair W1J 7NE 10th – 17th March, 10am – 6pm. For more information, visit www.ongallery.com
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