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Frank Herrmann
Playboy Bunny at reception b/w archival photograph 17 x25 inch

1963/2021

$875.22
£650
€766.49
CA$1,212.50
A$1,359.90
CHF 712.16
MX$16,524.11
NOK 9,043.22
SEK 8,573.61
DKK 5,721.45

About the Item

The first Playboy Club in London opened in 1965, following legalisation of gambling in the United Kingdom. Herrmann was dispatched by the Sunday Times to take fly-on-the-wall documentary style photos that included behind the scenes photos of the bunnies making up. He was granted unprecedented access to all areas of the club. This image shows a bunny on reception signing in a member. This print forms part of Frank Herrmann's 2021 "Icons of the 1960's" publication of the best of his work from the decade that keeps on giving. Herrmann, working for The Sunday Times was given rare access to the Abbey Road recording studios to photograph the Fab Four as they worked on the album Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. He stayed an hour and watched them record, have lunch followed by George pouring tea for the Beatles and their producer George Martin. paper size 17 x 25, Image size 14 x 20 inches. Limited Edition of only 25 in this size This print is embossed with the photographers stamp, numbered and signed by the photographer Frank Herrmann in pencil on lower right margin. Frank Herrmann is widely regarded as one of the outstanding photojournalists of the latter part of the twentieth century, with an illustrious thirty year career at The Sunday Times. Covering stories as diverse as the UDI in Rhodesia in 1966, the Paris riots in ’68, the Yom Kippur War of '73, the U.S Presidential elections of ’75 and the birth of Zimbabwe in 1980, he has travelled to Africa with Bob Geldof to record the famine relief work of Band Aid, has been to the South Pole to photograph the trans-Arctic expedition and has worked with Hunter Davies on several books including The Glory Game and Great Britain – a Celebration as well as his text book book on portraiture titled Portrait photography. His many portrait sittings include,  amongst others, Orson Welles, Maggie Smith, Sean Connery, William Burroughs, Winston Churchill, Duke Ellington, Harold Macmillan, Ronald Reagan, Arthur Miller, Samuel Beckett, Henry Moore, Judi Dench and Luciano Pavarotti. His work is held in many private collections and the National Portrait Gallery has recently purchased his work for their permanent collection.
  • Creator:
    Frank Herrmann (1933, British)
  • Creation Year:
    1963/2021
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 17 in (43.18 cm)Width: 25 in (63.5 cm)Depth: 0.01 in (0.26 mm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Norwich, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2376215971792

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