Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose, was an American photographer and photojournalist. Miller was a fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris, becoming a fashion and fine art photographer there. During World War II, she was a war correspondent for Vogue, covering events such as the London Blitz, the liberation of Paris, and the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau. Her reputation as an artist in her own right is due mostly to the fact her son discovered and promoted her work as a fashion and war photographer.
The Blitz Kids were a group of people who frequented the Tuesday club-night at Blitz in Covent Garden, London in 1979–1980, and are credited with launching the New Romantic subcultural movement.
Haysi Fantayzee were a British pop band of the early 1980s. Their best-known songs are "John Wayne Is Big Leggy", released in 1982, and "Shiny Shiny", released in 1983.
The Lion and the Cobra is the debut album by Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor, released on 5 October 1987 by Ensign and Chrysalis Records.
Willy Ronis was a French photographer. His best-known work shows life in post-war Paris and Provence.
Paul Caplin is an English businessman, musician, videographer and entrepreneur. Caplin studied as a mathematician at Imperial College, London and at Cambridge University. His career has spanned music, information technology and filmmaking.
Jeremy Healy is an English DJ and singer. He is a former member of 1980s pop group Haysi Fantayzee.
Fiona Margaret Hall, AO is an Australian artistic photographer and sculptor. Hall represented Australia in the 56th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2015. She is known as "one of Australia's most consistently innovative contemporary artists." Many of her works explore the "intersection of environment, politics and exploitation".
Anne Wardrope Brigman was an American photographer and one of the original members of the Photo-Secession movement in America.
Anne Pigalle is a French singer and multimedia artist.
Battle Hymns for Children Singing is the debut and sole studio album by the short-lived English new wave band Haysi Fantayzee, released in 1983 by Regard Records.
"John Wayne Is Big Leggy" is the debut single by British music group Haysi Fantayzee, released in 1982. It peaked at number 13 on the Austrian Singles Chart, number 3 on the German Singles Chart, number 4 on the Swiss Singles Chart, and number 11 on the UK Singles Chart.
Barbara Ess was an American photographer. She often used a pinhole camera and was known for her No Wave musical and editorial work.
Kate Cordsen is an American photographer and contemporary artist. Cordsen lives in New York City.
Anne Ferran is an Australian photographer.
The Quin is a luxury hotel in New York City. It is located on 57th Street and Sixth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, two blocks south of Central Park.
Joanna Margaret Paul was a New Zealand visual artist, poet and film-maker.
Catherine Simon is an American portrait photographer and writer. She is known for her photographs of influential musicians, artists, and writers, including The Clash, Patti Smith, Madonna, Andy Warhol, and William S. Burroughs. One of her photographs of Bob Marley was used on the front cover of his 1978 album, Kaya.
Fiona Rose Pattinson Adams, néeClarke was a British photographer. She is most well known for her photograph of the Beatles jumping in the air which featured on the Twist and Shout EP cover. In the 1960s, she photographed musicians of the day including Jimi Hendrix, Billy Fury, Cilla Black, Adam Faith, Bob Dylan, Sandie Shaw.
Hold Still: A Portrait of Our Nation in 2020 is a 2021 photographic book published by the National Portrait Gallery centering around the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. For the campaign “Hold Still”, the British public submitted pictures taken during the lockdown period of the pandemic for exhibition. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and a panel of experts, including Nicholas Cullinan, Lemn Sissay, Ruth May, and Maryam Wahid, curated the photographs featured in the book.
