Actually, he wanted to make jazz music. A professional was not hired Terry O’neill at the British Airways, as flight attendants, then, after training, as a technical photographer. He held his camera on the screws, motors, propellers, but also on the sleeping Minister of the interior. The snapshot ended up in the newspaper “Daily Sketch”, and gave the young photographer a contract.
In the following years, he got everything and all in front of the lens, the “Swinging Sixties” shaped; the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, the skinny model, Twiggy, but also Winston Churchill and the Royal Family. In the 1970s, he went to Hollywood.
Terry O’neill, who was now one of the Major, and worked for the great addresses: the “Playboy” or “Life” magazine. One of his most famous recordings and his personal favourite picture shows the actress Faye Dunaway on the Morning after the Oscar was awarded, relaxed and a little disoriented by the swimming pool. The two were a Couple, in 1983, they got married, in 1987, they were divorced again.
Terry O’neill remained the Stars faithfully, and this for him, from Kate Moss to Elton John, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra to David Bowie, a celebrity lacked hardly enter in his Portfolio. His recordings can be found in museums and photo galleries, some hang in the National Portrait Gallery in London. They are collected in books such as “Legends” or “Celebrity”. According to him, a well-respected photo award is named. On Saturday Terry O’neill, has died after a long illness. He was 81 years old.
Created: 18.11.2019, 16:27 PM