Film Director and Writer Jill Craigie (1949) from a portrait session at Coventry Street. The flood lamp and stands in the background were frequently used as props.
The cropped photograph originally appeared in ‘The Tatler & Bystander’ magazine (April 1949) to publicise the feature drama Blue Scar
Finally films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger reached Poland! 15th-22nd of November during Camerimage Festival we will be able to see those gems on a big screen. See us there as we will bring the book on Archers portraits!
Deborah Kerr in ‘The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp’ (1943)
This is the first of half dozen of photographs, which Fred Daniels selected as his finest works, which first appeared in ‘Tatler and Bystander’ magazine in 1949.
‘The ultimate test of a picture – he says – is can you live with it?’ For Fred Daniels it evoked ‘unforgettable moments of an autumn twilight in the woods’.
According to his words the finest picture shall possess ‘a sense of perspective, a feeling of tranquility mingled with feelings of mystery and enchantment’.
‘If a picture is capable of doing that for you it’s a very good picture…whoever made it’
Marcel Poncin photographed by Fred Daniels in his studio around 1945.
He starred in The Red Shoes (1948) as Bodin during the Monte Carlo sequences.
Fred Daniels took several portraits of Jacqueline Evans in his Coventry Street Studio
to publicise the rising star of Love Story (A Lady Surrenders USA title).
A wartime melodrama produced by Gainsborough.
Deborah Kerr photographed by Fred Daniels at Coventry Street studio and used by MGM publicity.
Leslie Howard portrait taken at Fred Daniel’s Coventry Street Studio. Reproduced from the original negative.
Fred Daniels photographed Margaret Morris at Juan-Les-Pins 1923.
During the summer schools at Cap d’Antibes Fred Daniels studied the method and principles of Margaret Morris to great effect. All the stills were created using a plate camera and ambient light.
Fred Daniels used Kodachrome color film at Pinewood Studios. The only surviving example is this portrait of Jean Colin from The Mikado 1939. Scanned from the original 10 x 8 transparency.
© Fundacja Twarda Sztuka 2012
© Photographs Fred Daniels Estate
The Archers: Powell & Pressburger PORTRAITS/PORTRETY FRED DANIELS
by Nigel Arthur & Ewa Reeves
Language: English & Polish
Size: 170 mm x 220 mm
Pages: 88
Print run: 500 copies
Printed on: Munken Polar
Font: Archer
Linen cover
Made in Poland
ISBN: 978-83-930435-2-1
The book at the price of 19.99 GBP plus postage (free within UK) is available through Twarda Sztuka web site – we accept PAYPAL
contact: ask@twarda-sztuka.pl
Deborah Kerr in “Black Narcissus”, Pinewood Studios 1946
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