Contemporary Black and White Photography
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
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Style: Contemporary
Artist: Terry O'Neill
Brigitte Bardot Holster Hip, Photography 1971, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot is one of the most iconic French actresses and models in the world. She is one of the best known sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s and was widely referred...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin
Backyard Beatles
Located in Norwich, GB
Paper size : 24 x 20 inches, Image size : 23 x 15 inches. Lifetime silver gelatin print
No 49/50 signed lower right margin.
Terry O’Neill CBE is one of the world’s most collected ph...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Frank Sinatra on the Boardwalk, View 1 (30”x 40” Lifetime Platinum Print)
Located in Greenwich, CT
Francis Albert Sinatra was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century. He is one of the best-selling ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dean Martin, Las Vegas
Located in London, GB
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...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Brigitte Bardot
Located in Norwich, GB
Terry O’Neill is one of the twentieth century's most accomplished and collected photographers, whose work hangs in national galleries and private collections around the globe. Since ...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Lambda, C Print, Black and White, Photographic Paper
David Bowie, Diamond Dogs - Terry O'Neill, music, lifetime signed, 24x20 in.
Located in London, GB
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...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Muhammad Ali, Speedbag - Terry O'Neill, lifetime signed, 40x30 in, ali
Located in London, GB
Terry O'Neill (1938-2019)
Muhammad Ali, Speedbag
1972
lifetime edition silver gelatin fine art archival print
40 x 30 in. (paper size)
edition of 50
signed and numbered
printed later...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Bardot Co-signed
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
Co-Signed by Brigitte Bardot and Terry O’Neill
Edition number 9/50
French actress Brigitte Bardot in Deauville, 1968. It is the first time she meets British actor Sean Connery before...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bruce Springsteen Sunset Strip, Los Angeles
Located in Westwood, NJ
Terry O’Neill’s candid photojournalistic portraits of creative and political luminaries have included Brigitte Bardot, The Beatles, Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, and Frank Sinatra,...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Brigitte Bardot & Sean Connery
Located in Westwood, NJ
Terry O’Neill’s candid photojournalistic portraits of creative and political luminaries have included Brigitte Bardot, The Beatles, Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, and Frank Sinatra,...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Elton John at Dodger Stadium
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
In 1975, and Elton John performed at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. He played 2 sold out shows.
Edition of 50.
1975
Limited Edition photograph.
Estate Stamped photograph.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
John Lennon, London
Located in Westwood, NJ
Terry O’Neill’s candid photojournalistic portraits of creative and political luminaries have included Brigitte Bardot, The Beatles, Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, and Frank Sinatra,...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Judy Garland and Liza Minelli, London
Located in Westwood, NJ
Terry O’Neill’s candid photojournalistic portraits of creative and political luminaries have included Brigitte Bardot, The Beatles, Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, and Frank Sinatra,...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Terry O'Neill - Raquel Welch on "Myra Breckinridge", 1970, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
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...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver
Terry O'Neill - Kate Moss, Photography 1993, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Katherine Ann Moss is one of the most recognizable, most photographed and most influential British supermodels. With her incredibly thin body, she created quite a stir in the modeling world, launching what became known as the waif look/model. She was discovered in 1988 at age 14 by Sarah Doukas, founder of Storm Model Management, at JFK Airport in New York City. Arriving at the end of the "supermodel era", Moss rose to fame in the mid 1990s as part of the heroin chic...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver
Terry O'Neill - Raquel Welch on The Cross Black & White, 1966, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Raquel Welch is an American actress and singer. She first won attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966), after which she won a contract with 20th Century Fox. They lent her c...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver
Terry O'Neill - Kate Moss Portrait, Photography 1993, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
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...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Terry O'Neill - Marianne Faithfull, Photography 1964, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull is an English singer, songwriter and actress. She achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her hit single "As Tears Go By" and became on...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver
Terry O'Neill - Jean Shrimpton & Terence Stamp, Photography 1963, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Terry O’Neill captured the essence of London’s Swinging Sixties with this dual portrait of model Jean Shrimpton and actor Terence Stamp. Shrimpton defined the look of the ‘posh’ girl...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver
Terry O'Neill - Brigitte Bardot Shalako, Deauville, 1968, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
French actress Brigitte Bardot in Deauville, 1968. It is the first time she meets British actor Sean Connery before the filming of 'Shalako', directed by Edward Dmytryk. In 1968, O’N...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver
Terry O'Neill - Brigitte Bardot hands on hips, Photography 1971, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot is one of the most iconic French actresses and models in the world. She is one of the best known sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s and was widely referred...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver
Mick Jagger - the rockstar in the snow in a fur coat
Located in Vienna, AT
Portrait of the superstar Mick Jagger available in different sizes, framing on request.
Terry O’Neill is one of the world’s most collected photographers whose work is shown in natio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bardot
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
Brigitte Bardot and Terry O’Neill
46/50
Limited Edition photograph.
Signed by Terry O'neill
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bruce Springsteen, Los Angeles, 1975
Located in Chicago, IL
Singer Bruce Springsteen on Sunset Strip, 1975. He is in Los Angeles to promote his album ‘Born to Run’.
Paper size: 20 H x 16 W inches
Edition size: 50
*Please inquire for additi...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bond on the Moon
Located in Chicago, IL
Scottish actor Sean Connery as James Bond plays golf on a deserted film set in Pinewood Studios in London during the filming of ‘Diamonds Are Forever’, 1971.
Paper size: 16 H x 20 W inches
Edition size: 50
*Please inquire for additional sizes*
O’Neill began his career at the birth of the 1960s. While other photographers concentrated on earthquakes, wars and politics, O’Neill realised that youth culture was a breaking news...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
David Bowie 'Diamond Dogs', view 2
Located in Westwood, NJ
Terry O’Neill’s candid photojournalistic portraits of creative and political luminaries have included Brigitte Bardot, The Beatles, Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, and Frank Sinatra,...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Roger Moore as James Bond
Located in Westwood, NJ
Terry O’Neill’s candid photojournalistic portraits of creative and political luminaries have included Brigitte Bardot, The Beatles, Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, and Frank Sinatra,...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Audrey Hepburn in Pool
Located in Westwood, NJ
Terry O’Neill’s candid photojournalistic portraits of creative and political luminaries have included Brigitte Bardot, The Beatles, Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, and Frank Sinatra,...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Elton John at Dodger Stadium-
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
Elton John at Dodger Stadium.
1975
Taken by Terry O'neill during Elton John's 2 night performance at Dodger Stadium.
Available as a Es...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Elton John at Dodger Stadium
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
Elton John at Dodger Stadium.
1975
Signed by photographer.
Limited Edition of 50.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Elton John at Dodger Stadium
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
Elton John at Dodger Stadium.
1975
Limited Edition of 50
Signed by photographer on bottom right.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Frank Sinatra "Boardwalk"
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
American singer and film actor Frank Sinatra, surrounded by his entourage, in Miami Beach while filming "The Lady in Cement." Sinatra was one of Terry O’Neill’s favorite subjects. Of...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Queen (1975)
Located in Westwood, NJ
Edition: 50
Artist Proof: 10
These silver gelatin prints made directly from Terry O’Neill’s negatives and are offered as part of an edition of 50 numbered, digitally signed and embos...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Queen "Heads Up" (1975)
Located in Westwood, NJ
Size Editions: 50
Artist Proofs: 10
These silver gelatin prints made directly from Terry O’Neill’s negatives and are offered as part of an edition of 50 numbered, digitally signed an...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Frank Sinatra on the Boardwalk, 1968
Located in Chicago, IL
Frank Sinatra arrives at Miami beach with his entourage (including his stand-in, dressed in an identical suit and less well-dressed beefy minders) while filming 'The Lady In Cement'....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Rod Stewart, 1971
Located in Chicago, IL
Singer Rod Stewart at his home in Old Windsor, 1971.
Paper size: 12 H x 16 W inches
Edition size: 50
*Please inquire for additional sizes*
Terry O’Neil...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
David Bowie and Elizabeth Taylor, Beverly Hills, 1975
Located in Chicago, IL
Singer David Bowie shares a cigarette with actress Elizabeth Taylor in Beverly Hills, 1975. It was the first occasion that the pair had met.
Paper size: 20 H x 16 W inches
Frame s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Daniel Craig
Located in Chicago, IL
Portrait of actor Daniel Craig, the current James Bond, taken in a North London pub in 2012.
Paper size: 24 H x 20 W inches
Frame size: 29.5 H x 24 W...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Catherine Deneuve
Located in Chicago, IL
French actress Catherine Deneuve dressed in white and surrounded by flowers in a scene from "Mayerling," a historical romance directed by Terence You...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Audrey Swimming (Black & White)
Located in Chicago, IL
Audrey Hepburn having a swim during a break from filming Stanley Donen’s 1967 work ‘Two for the Road’ in St Tropez.
Print size: 16 H x 20 W inches
Frame size: 19.5 H x 24.5 W inches...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Brigitte Bardot filming 'Shalako', Deauville, 1968
Located in Chicago, IL
French actress Brigitte Bardot in Deauville, 1968. It is the first time she meets British actor Sean Connery before the filming of ‘Shalako’, directed by Edward Dmytryk.
Paper size:...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Beatles Arrive in the US on Pan Am
Located in Westwood, NJ
Terry O’Neill’s candid photojournalistic portraits of creative and political luminaries have included Brigitte Bardot, The Beatles, Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, and Frank Sinatra,...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Brigitte Bardot Deauville
Located in Westwood, NJ
Terry O’Neill’s candid photojournalistic portraits of creative and political luminaries have included Brigitte Bardot, The Beatles, Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, and Frank Sinatra,...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Brigitte Bardot during the filming of 'The Novices'
Located in Westwood, NJ
Terry O’Neill’s candid photojournalistic portraits of creative and political luminaries have included Brigitte Bardot, The Beatles, Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, and Frank Sinatra,...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Beatles Backyard, London
Located in Westwood, NJ
Terry O’Neill’s candid photojournalistic portraits of creative and political luminaries have included Brigitte Bardot, The Beatles, Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, and Frank Sinatra,...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Keith Richards, London
Located in Westwood, NJ
Terry O’Neill’s candid photojournalistic portraits of creative and political luminaries have included Brigitte Bardot, The Beatles, Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, and Frank Sinatra,...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Frank Sinatra, Miami Beach
Located in Westwood, NJ
Terry O’Neill’s candid photojournalistic portraits of creative and political luminaries have included Brigitte Bardot, The Beatles, Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, and Frank Sinatra,...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Rolling Stones
Located in Westwood, NJ
Terry O’Neill’s candid photojournalistic portraits of creative and political luminaries have included Brigitte Bardot, The Beatles, Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, and Frank Sinatra,...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bruce Springsteen, Hollywood Boulevard, in front of Born To Run Billboard
Located in Westwood, NJ
Terry O’Neill’s candid photojournalistic portraits of creative and political luminaries have included Brigitte Bardot, The Beatles, Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, and Frank Sinatra,...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sean Connery, Bond On The Moon
Located in Westwood, NJ
Terry O’Neill’s candid photojournalistic portraits of creative and political luminaries have included Brigitte Bardot, The Beatles, Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, and Frank Sinatra,...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Rolling Stones, Donmar Rehearsal Theater
Located in Westwood, NJ
Terry O’Neill’s candid photojournalistic portraits of creative and political luminaries have included Brigitte Bardot, The Beatles, Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, and Frank Sinatra,...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Elton John
Located in Westwood, NJ
Terry O’Neill’s candid photojournalistic portraits of creative and political luminaries have included Brigitte Bardot, The Beatles, Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, and Frank Sinatra,...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Amy Winehouse, London
Located in Westwood, NJ
Terry O’Neill’s candid photojournalistic portraits of creative and political luminaries have included Brigitte Bardot, The Beatles, Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, and Frank Sinatra,...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Rolling Stones, Hanover Square, London
Located in Westwood, NJ
Terry O’Neill’s candid photojournalistic portraits of creative and political luminaries have included Brigitte Bardot, The Beatles, Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, and Frank Sinatra,...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Kate Moss - in lace bodysuit sitting on the floor, fine art photography, 1992
Located in Vienna, AT
Other sizes and high end framing on request.
PREISS FINE ARTS is one of the world’s leading galleries for fine art photography representing the most famous contemporary artists.
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Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Raquel Welch on set of Myra Breckenridge, Los Angeles
Located in Westwood, NJ
Terry O’Neill’s candid photojournalistic portraits of creative and political luminaries have included Brigitte Bardot, The Beatles, Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, and Frank Sinatra,...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Brigitte Bardot on Set
Located in Westwood, NJ
Terry O’Neill’s candid photojournalistic portraits of creative and political luminaries have included Brigitte Bardot, The Beatles, Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, and Frank Sinatra,...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Rolling Stones
Located in Westwood, NJ
Terry O’Neill’s candid photojournalistic portraits of creative and political luminaries have included Brigitte Bardot, The Beatles, Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, and Frank Sinatra,...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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