LONDON – The photographer Terry O’Neill, chronicler of Swinging Sixties London, has died aged 81, according to his licensee, Iconic Images.
“It is with a heavy heart that Iconic Images announces the passing of Terry O’Neill,” the company said. The photographer died Saturday, Nov. 16 after a long battle with cancer.
His photos of The Rolling Stones were “instrumental” in the band’s early success, according to Iconic Images, and Keith Richards once said that O’Neill was “behind the lens, everywhere, always.”
O’Neill’s famous shot of Faye Dunaway – his former wife – after her Oscar win for “Network” hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London.
His shot of Queen Elizabeth from 1992, where he got her to smile by telling her a horse racing joke, is another famous image that went on to shape his career. Last month, he was awarded a CBE, or Commander of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for his services to photography.
“It is with a heavy heart that Iconic Images announces the passing of Terry O’Neill,” the company said. The photographer died Saturday, Nov. 16 after a long battle with cancer.
His photos of The Rolling Stones were “instrumental” in the band’s early success, according to Iconic Images, and Keith Richards once said that O’Neill was “behind the lens, everywhere, always.”
O’Neill’s famous shot of Faye Dunaway – his former wife – after her Oscar win for “Network” hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London.
His shot of Queen Elizabeth from 1992, where he got her to smile by telling her a horse racing joke, is another famous image that went on to shape his career. Last month, he was awarded a CBE, or Commander of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for his services to photography.
Legendary Celebrity Photographer, Terry O’Neill, in conversation at Box Galleries, Chelsea, London.
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O’Neill’s career started at age 14 when he left school with the ambitions of becoming a jazz drummer, but ended up working in a photographic unit at Heathrow Airport.
He went on to become