- Paul Tanqueray
Paul Tanqueray (
14 January ,1905 - September 1991) was an English photographer.Tanqueray was born in
Littlehampton ,Sussex . Tanqueray first became interested in thetheatre andphotography when he was atTonbridge School (1920-1923) and won the school's Photographic prize. Through his contact with an ex-pupil of the Tonbridge SchoolHugh Cecil , Tanqueray began his photographic career as one of his pupils.Paul Tanqueray opened his first studio at 139, High Street,
Kensington in 1925 [ [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp13234&role=art Paul Tanqueray (1905-1991), Photographer ] ] . As London's then youngest photographer, he was in a perfect position to document an era that had become obsessed with youth and modernism. During this time he employed an ex-Cambridge graduate as his assistant,Cecil Beaton , until Beaton was taken on by Vogue [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20040201/ai_n12750408 THE BEATON GENERATION | Independent on Sunday, The | Find Articles at BNET.com ] ] .Five years of success in Kensington led to a move the more fashionable
West End of London at 8, Dover Street, near theRitz Hotel . Tanqueray's photographs appeared regularly in theDaily Sketch andTatler and most frequently inside and on the cover of Theatre World. His work, includingEthel Mannin [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/fashion/2006/11/26/stwriters26.xml&site=11&page=0] and his 1929 and 1933 portraits ofAnna May Wong , was also selected and hung at the annual London Salon of Photography.During the
Second World War Tanqueray worked mainly with Chelsea Home Guard. After the war he re-opened his studio at 30, Thurloe Place inSouth Kensington , where his 1950's famous images includedElizabeth Seal , Dame Joan Plowright, and actressClaire Bloom .Tanqueray retired in 1965, and in two tranches donated his prints in 1975, and his negatives in 1983 to the National Portrait Gallery. Tanqueray died in September 1991 [ [http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/362751 BFI | Film & TV Database | TANQUERAY, Paul ] ] .
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* [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp13234&role=art Bio at the] National Portrait Gallery
* [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/wotanqueray.asp Notes from 2004 National Portrait Gallery exhibition]
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