Author Description

"Sandra Lousada grew up amidst a circle of actors, writers and artists. Her grandfather was the writer and politician A. P. Herbert; her mother was stage designer Jocelyn Herbert; Jocylyn's partner, George Devine, founded the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre; and near neighbours were the Redgrave family. Since childhood she has had privileged access to the worlds of literature, the arts, the theatre and film. Surrounded by this wealth of diverse talents, she searched for a language of her own; by the late 1950s she had found it, in photography." "This book is a compilation of photographs drawn from a career spanning over half a century, capturing Lousada's insider view of figures including Laurence Oliver and Joan Plowright, Vanessa Redgrave, Julie Christie, Helen Mirren, Joanna Lumley, Henry Moore and David Hockney. It also includes images from her work as a photographer of children, and from her career in advertising and as a fashion and beauty photographer working for magazines such as Harpers & Queen, Tatler and Vogue." --Book Jacket.