
Important Photographs from the Peter Fetterman Collection
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.
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
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