Table of Contents

Foreword by Sandy Nairne Artist with a camera by Clare Freestone Beyond the mere likeness by Karen Wright From the Archive Chronology Plates: -Early years in London -Forty artists from London and Paris -The art world -Portraits of writers -Le quartier St Ives -Documentary portraits -The London scene and later sittings Notes on plates Select bibliography and picture credits Acknowledgements Index

About the Author

Clare Freestone is Associate Curator of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery,London. She has curated displays including Seizing an Instant: Photographs by Roger Mayne and Private View: British Pop and the Sixties Art Scene. Karen Wright is a writer and curator based in London. She co-founded Modern Painters magazine with Peter Fuller and is currently senior editor for Phillips de Pury & Company.