Elizabeth II: Princess, Queen, Icon - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1855147432 ISBN 13: 9781855147430

Verlag: National Portrait Gallery, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

With just under a thousand portraits of Queen Elizabeth II, the National Portrait Gallery boasts some of the most treasured and famous official portraits of the Queen captured at key historic moments, as well as day-to-day images of the monarch at home and with family, following her journey from childhood, to princess and Queen, mother and grandmother. This publication highlights the most important portraits of Elizabeth II from the Gallery’s Collection. Paintings and photographs from the birth of Elizabeth II to the present will take readers on a visual journey through the life of Britain’s foremost icon.

The book will reflect on the Queen’s life, presenting family photographs alongside important formal portraits to explore how, as her reign became record-breaking, she became an iconic figure in modern British culture and history. The publication features works by key artists depicting the Queen from 1926 to the present day, including Baron, Cecil Beaton, Dorothy Wilding, Patrick Lichfield, Andy Warhol, Annie Leibovitz and David Bailey.

This book features an introductory essay by Alexandra Shulman, exploring how the collected portraits depict the Queen throughout her life and reign, and a timeline of key historical events and moments from Elizabeth II’s life.

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Alexandra Shulman is a British journalist and former Editor-in-Chief of British Vogue. She is the author of Clothes... and Other Things That Matter (2020) and Inside Vogue: My Diary Of Vogue's 100th Year (2016).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: National Portrait Gallery
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1855147432
• ISBN 13: 9781855147430
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 152
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