JOHN HEDGECOE – VIVAT! VIVAT! MY ENGLAND!
2014-07-14One of Britain’s leading post-war portrait photographers, Hedgecoe was also the world’s best-selling writer on practical photography, having sold some 9 million books worldwide. As a student at the RCA he first photographed Henry Moore in 1953. In 1957 Hedgecoe joined Queen magazine as staff photographer, under the editorship of Jocelyn Stevens. In 1965 Hedgecoe founded the Photography Department at the Royal College of Art, and was Professor of Photography from 1975–1994.
VIVAT! VIVAT! MY ENGLAND! presents a selection of 34 of Hedgecoe’s most iconic photographs, some of which will be exhibited for the first time.
Exhibition runs through to August 5th, 2014
Royal College of Art
Kensington Gore
London
SW7 2EU
