Theatre and Arts

Throughout the '60s Terry O'Neill captured timeless images of some of the decade's biggest stars.

Among the first people he snapped were a new band called The Beatles. It became the first pop music picture to be used in a newspaper. It was just before the band became a worldwide success.

From the Beatles and Rolling Stones in the '60s to the Royal Family and the Prime Minister's family in more recent times Terry O'Neill has proved adept at recording the significant subjects of the day in a visually stimulating and sometimes unexpected way, in doing so has captured an illuminated history of our age.

David Bowie captured by Terry O'Neill

O'Neill began his career working for a photographic unit for an airline at London's Heathrow Airport. By chance he photographed a sleeping figure in a waiting room; when the person was revealed to be the Home Secretary, O'Neill found further employment on Fleet Street with The Daily Sketch in 1959.

Terry O'Neill also briefly branched into the movies, as an executive producer of the 1981 film 'Mommie Dearest', a film about Hollywood legend Joan Crawford which starred Faye Dunaway.

Now a special exhibition of his work will be taking place at specialist photographic Gallery PZ Gallery on Penzance promenade. The exhibition will feature limited edition fine art photographic prints of some of Terry O'Neill's most iconic images of celebrities from stage, screen and the world of pop music.

The exhibition has been arranged in conjunction with Tristan's Gallery, and PZ Gallery.

The exhibition opens on Friday 3 July and will run until Saturday 15 August 2009. It can be viewed Mondays – Saturdays between 12pm-5pm.