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Important Photographs from the Peter Fetterman Collection

Norman Parkinson

The Iron Road, 1947

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Important Photographs from the Peter Fetterman Collection

Norman Parkinson

1913 - 1990

The Iron Road, 1947


Silver print, printed later. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 2/21 in black ink by Robin Morgan in the Norman Parkinson archive stamp on the verso. Matted. (unframed)

image: 37.8 by 35.5cm.; 14⅞ by 14in.

sheet: 50.8 by 40.6 cm.; 20 by 16in.

Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 

Illustrated p. 59, Norman Parkinson : A very British Glamour by Louise Baring Rizzoli 2009

Illustrated plate 70, Parkinson Photographs 1935-1990, Conran Octopus 1994

Illustrated p.57, Norman Parkinson Always in Fashion, ACC Art Books 2019

“You’ll never see me hung about with cameras like a Christmas Tree but I am a photographer.” -

Norman Parkinson


Parks was the grandaddy of British fashion photographers. He was one of the great myth makers of his era. - Peter Fetterman