Cambridge connections: photographs by Antony Barrington Brown

A new display at the National Portrait Gallery (London, United Kingdom) celebrates the career of photographer Antony Barrington Brown. The display presents a selection from the 240 recently acquired sittings, taken between 1953 and 1958, given to the National Portrait Gallery by Barrington Brown before his death in a car crash in January 2012. The display shows leading figures in Cambridge during the 1950s including Mark Boxer, Crick and Watson and Michael Winner. Cambridge Connections: Photographs by Antony Barrington Brown (1927 – 2012) will run until 16 September 2012.
 
The best-known photograph by Barrington Brown is of James Watson and Francis Crick around the time of their discovery of DNA in 1953. They were photographed in the Cavendish Laboratory,Cambridge with their original DNA double-helix model to accompany an article on Crick and Watson for Time Magazine. Although not published at the time the photograph became well-known following its reproduction in Crick’s memoir The Double Helix (1968).
 
The other portraits on display include arts administrator and journalist Sir John Tusa, cartoonist and magazine editor Mark Boxer, co-founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company John Barton, ex Archbishop of Canterbury Baron Runcie, theologian and historian William Chadwick and film director, producer and critic, Michael Winner.


Date: until September 16.
Location: National Portrait Gallery. St Martin's Place. London. WC2H 0HE. United Kingdom.
Opening Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 6pm. Thursday and Friday from 10am to 9pm.