David Armstrong

Tom in East River Park

1993

'Slots' was taken in the classic vintage Vegas Casino at the Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, which opened in 1946 and is the oldest in operation today. This c...

'Wendy Resting', from Richard Heeps 'Man's Ruin' Series. This contemporary portrait is part of a sequence of artworks photographing Wendy at the Rockabilly Weekender, Viva Las Vegas....

lifetime edition silver gelatin fine art archival print 72 x 48 in. (paper size) edition 10 of 50 signed and numbered Notes: Dean Martin prepares to go on...

Terry O'Neill (1938-2019) David Bowie, Diamond Dogs (v2) 1974 lifetime edition silver gelatin fine art archival print 24 x 20 in. (paper size) edition of 50 signed and numbered printed later Price: £9,360 GBP (inc. 20% UK VAT) Notes: David Bowie poses with a large barking dog for the artwork of his 1974 album Diamond Dogs in London. From the start of the 1960s and continuing until the present day the name of Terry O'Neill has become inextricably connected with some of the most interesting takes on photographic portraits of celebrities. From the Beatles and Rolling Stones in the 1960s to the Royal Family and the Prime Minister's family in more recent times Terry O'Neill has proved adept at recording the significant subjects of the day in a visually stimulating and sometimes unexpected way and thus illuminated history of our age. Terry O'Neill was born on 30 July 1938 in the East End of London. His career as a photographer evolved by chance out of his first ambition to become a jazz drummer. Leaving school at fourteen and then doing his National Service his ambition was to go to America to study with the great drummers there. He thought that the best way to travel frequently and inexpensively to the USA would be to get a job as an air steward for BOAC. The airline at that time had no vacancies for stewards but suggested he took a vacancy in their technical photographic unit, which he combined with time at an art school and he then became interested in photojournalism. At first, O'Neill worked as freelance at London Airport, later was offered a stunt as a reportage photographer at Heathrow. This was followed by three years in Fleet Street, with O'Neill at 21, the youngest photographer in Fleet Street taking pop pictures for the up-tempo Daily Sketch. One thing lead to another and O'Neill quickly became a significant image-maker and one of the group of talented young photographers who helped create the photographic icons of the 1960s and create part of the buzz that became Swinging London. The peer group that emerged in this decade included David Bailey, Terence Donovan and Brian Duffy from the East End and Patrick Lichfield and Lewis Morley...

Michael Caine contact sheet print by Brian Duffy - London 1964 This session with Michael Caine was shot by Duffy in 1964, the same year that the film Zulu was released which was hi...

In London, 1993 Lifetime Edition Gelatin Silver Print Co-Signed This photograph will be printed once payment has been received and will ship directly from the printer the artist wor...

Brigitte Bardot on the set of ‘Les Petroleuses’ a.k.a. ‘The Legend of Frenchie King’, Spain, 1971 Signed and Numbered Lifetime Edition Gelatin Silver Print from the Terry O’Neill Es...

Lifetime Edition Gelatin Silver Print This iconic B&W print of the Terry O’Neill photograph ‘The Beatles Backyard, London’, taken in the backyard of Abbey Road Studios in 1963. The ...

American actress Raquel Welch on a table in her knickers in ‘Myra Breckinridge’, a 1970 American comedy film based on Gore Vidal’s novel and directed by Michael Sarne, with Raquel We...

On the set of the James Bond film ‘Diamonds Are Forever’, Las Vegas, 1971. Signed and Numbered Lifetime Edition Gelatin Silver Print from the Terry O’Neill Estate. 20" x 16" - Edi...