Earl of Snowdon is a British peerage title, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The title was created in 1961, together with the subsidiary title of Viscount Linley, for Antony Armstrong-Jones, husband of HRH The Princess Margaret. The Peerage is a system of titles of nobility which exists in the United Kingdom and is one part of the British honours system. ... The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801. ... HRH The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret (Margaret Rose Armstrong-Jones, née Windsor; (August 21, 1930—February 9, 2002) was a member of the British Royal Family, the second eldest daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and sister of the current British...
Whether it is the art historian and spy, Anthony Blunt, caught with a slide reflected on his eyeball, or J.R.R. Tolkien, gripped in middle earth by the vast roots of a spreading oak, British society, English writers and artists, performers and designers, nobles and commoners were caught with a new candor and style.
Snowdon caught the swinging sixties of London better than any photographer and has continued to be the poet and recorder of London as a center of artistic and creative vitality.
The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, Photographs by Snowdon: A Retrospective, with contributions by Drusilla Beyfus, Simon Callow, Georgina Howell, Patrick Kinmonth, Anthony Powell, Carl Toms, and Marjorie Wallace.
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