Lord Snowdon is gone.

[Rob C]

There goes another one of us.

A great photographer very unfairly blasted later on as photographer, success being put down to his royal connection, but for anyone who was aware of him in Vogue etc. before he got married, that was very obviously mistaken and very misplaced opinion: the guy was as good as anybody else doing that stuff in the day.

For the record: I think he made the most provocative (and glamorous) photograph of Helen Mirren I've ever seen: standing in front of a makeup mirror, almost wearing a basque. Which sort of showed that he wasn't just able to hack it with flouncy dresses...

RIP

[pearlstreet]

Some of his work here - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/jan/13/lord-snowdon-a-career-in-photography

[Chairman Bill]

... I think he made the most provocative (and glamorous) photograph of Helen Mirren I've ever seen.

That'll be this one

[Peter McLennan]

For the record: I think he made the most provocative (and glamorous) photograph of Helen Mirren I've ever seen:

Agreed.  Provocative and glamorous it certainly is. Superb!

[mediumcool]

I consider Snowdon to have been a better photographer than Litchfield, but that’s not a particularly difficult thing to have achieved. His marrying into The Firm was arguably his best move. Fame brings access.

[Rob C]

I consider Snowdon to have been a better photographer than Litchfield, but that’s not a particularly difficult thing to have achieved. His marrying into The Firm was arguably his best move. Fame brings access.

I was hoping nobody would come to this spot and make that comment. It is both mistaken and not based on the published reality of either, of which I have seen quite a lot; I have cast and worked with many of the same Lichfield models doing similar shoots. You have got it wrong, my man, quite apart from the inability to spell his name properly.  And Snowdon was already 'connected', for what that's worth.

Beyond writing this, I will not ruin this thread by letting myself be diverted into argument.

Rob C

[GrahamBy]

The portrait of Meryl Streep at the head of the Guardian article is stunning.