The enigmatic London born photographer, married Princess Margaret in 1960 and has taken the portraits of every notable face in the world from the glamorously haute couture of the fifties, to the rising sixties London art scene, not to mention his rich, powerful and royal counterparts.
Snowdon Blue is inspired by his portraits featuring 61 photographers of sitters wearing variations on the blue shirt – including figures from David Bowie to Serge Gainsbourg and Yves Saint Laurent.
‘The blue shirt is anonymous and yet kind of a uniform. It’s like a simple backdrop that leaves us to focus on the sitter’s face without being distracted.” explains Snowdon.
As a fan of the blue shirt, he kept a number of them in his studio, ready for his subjects to throw on. In the same way the exhibition was pinned to makeshift walls of the Acne Studio second floor resembling how Snowdon tacked his images to his own studio walls.
Snowdon Blue is currently touring Paris and Stockholm. Check it out!
Laura Liliyana-Raffaella Cogoni
