English, 1913-1990

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY:

Norman Parkinson was one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated fashion photographers. He pioneered epic storytelling in his images, taking portrait and fashion photography beyond the stiff formality of his predecessors and injecting an easy and casual elegance into the art. His photographs created the age of the supermodel and made him the photographer of choice for celebrities, artists, writers, and politicians. He was a permanent fixture at historic moments, photographing the British Royal Family, in private and public, as well as leading figures from the worlds of film, theatre, and music. His subjects include Audrey Hepburn, The Beatles, Twiggy, Grace Coddington, David Bowie, Iman, Jerry Hall, and countless others. Ina career that spanned six decades, he dazzled the world and inspired his peers with sparkling inventiveness.

Parkinson worked for a wide range of publications, notable Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Queen, Town & Country, and other international magazines, which brought him worldwide recognition. He reinvented himself and fashion photography throughout his career, form his ground-breaking, spontaneous image of the 19930s, through the war years, the glamorous ‘50s and the swinging ‘60s, to the exotic locations of the 1970s and 1980s. By the end of his life he had become a household name, the recipient of a CBE, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, and the subject of a large-scale retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery, London. And yet fewer than 200 of his photographs have ever been seen or exhibited outside of their initial publication, and his archive of more than 500,000 images provides a rich historical record to explore. Norman Parkinson died whilst on location in Singapore shooting for Town & Country in 1990.

EDUCATION:
1931, apprentice to the court photographers, Speaight and Sons Ltd

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2012, "Norman Parkinson: The Godfather of British Fashion Photography, The Glamour Years," Gallery Vassie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2011, "Norman Parkinson 1913-1990," Chris Beetles Gallery, London, England
2011, "Pink is the Navy Blue of India," toured Ahmedabad, Calcutta, Delhi, Bangalore, and Mumbai, India
2009, "Norman Parkinson: British Fashion 1950-1960," Birgit Filzmaier, Zurich, Switzerland
2009, "Norman Parkinson: A Very British Glamour," Somerset House, London, England
2009, "Norman Parkinson," Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy
2008, "Norman Parkinson: Fashion Inside and Out," The Parking Lot, London, England
2007, "Norman Parkinson: Retrospective," Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
2006, "Norman Parkinson: Scene and Unseen," ArtLondon, London, England
1983, Retrospective at International Center of Photography, New York, USA
1981, "Photographs by Norman Parkinson: Fifty Years of Portraits and Fashion," National Portrait Gallery, London, England

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2019, Always Audrey, Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica
2019, Women on View: Aesthetics of Desire in Advertising, Galerie 36, Berlin
2018, Summer Photography Exhibit, Isabella Garrucho Fine Art, Greenwich
2018, The Fashion Show, Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica
2018, Changes: From the Staley-Wise Archive, Staley-Wise Gallery, New York
2018, Photography's Greatest Icons "A Collectors Exhibition", Isabella Garrucho Fine Art, Greenwich
2015, Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon, National Portrait Gallery, London
2015, India Art Fair, Tasveer, New Delhi
2014, Real and Surreal, Staley-Wise Gallery
2010, "Masterpieces: Norman Parkinson, Terence Donovan, and Patrick Lichfield," The Little Black Gallery, London, England
2010, "Threads," Diemar/Noble, London, England
2008, "Fashion," CameraWork, Berlin, Germany
2008, "Norman Parkinson: Contacts, Cigarettes, Colour," Paul Smith Gallery, London, England
2007, "Norman Parkinson/Philip Treacy," Eleven Fine Arts, London, England
2007, "Muses, Mothers, Models," Bernheimer Fine Old Masters, Munich, Germany
2007, "How We Are: Photographing Britain," Tate Britain, London, England
2007, "Sking," Birgit Fitzmaier, Zurich, Switzerland
2004, National Portrait Gallery, London, England
2004, Staley-Wise Gallery, New York, USA
2004, Hamiltons Gallery, London, England
1985, Notable Diamonds, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
1978, Photographers' Gallery, London, England

FAIR BOOTHS:
2019, Peter Fetterman Gallery at The Photography Show 2019, presented by AIPAD, Peter Fetterman Gallery
2018, Staley-Wise Gallery at The Photography Show 2018, presented by AIPAD, Staley-Wise Gallery
2017, Augusta Edwards Fine Art at The Photography Show 2017, presented by AIPAD, Augusta Edwards Fine Art
2016, Eric Franck Fine Art at Photo London 2016, Eric Franck Fine Art