Nicholas Sinclair
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Nicholas Sinclair is a British
photographer born in London
.
Sinclair studied Fine Art at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. His career as a photographer began in 1982 with a series of photographs taken in the circus which were first exhibited in 1983 at the University of Sussex
and subsequently published in the British Journal of Photography
. He is known principally as a portrait photographer and many of his portraits are held in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
Sinclair is also an accomplished landscape photographer and has published five books. He has edited two books about the Welsh artist Sir Kyffin Williams
RA, and has taken what are now recognised as the definitive portraits of the artist. His work has also been exhibited in many European cities and in 2003 he was made a Hasselblad Master.
United Kingdom
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photographer born in London
London
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Sinclair studied Fine Art at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. His career as a photographer began in 1982 with a series of photographs taken in the circus which were first exhibited in 1983 at the University of Sussex
University of Sussex
The University of Sussex is an English public research university situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, within the city of Brighton and Hove. The University received its Royal Charter in August 1961....
and subsequently published in the British Journal of Photography
British Journal of Photography
The British Journal of Photography is a magazine about photography publishing in-depth articles, profiles of photographs, analyses, and techological reviews.-History:...
. He is known principally as a portrait photographer and many of his portraits are held in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
Sinclair is also an accomplished landscape photographer and has published five books. He has edited two books about the Welsh artist Sir Kyffin Williams
Kyffin Williams
Sir John "Kyffin" Williams, KBE, RA was a Welsh landscape painter who lived at Pwllfanogl, Llanfairpwll on the Island of Anglesey...
RA, and has taken what are now recognised as the definitive portraits of the artist. His work has also been exhibited in many European cities and in 2003 he was made a Hasselblad Master.
Books
- The Chameleon Body (Lund Humphries 1996)
- Franko B (Blackdog Publishing 1998)
- Portraits of Artists (Lund Humphries 2000)
- Crossing the Water (Photoworks 2002)
- Berlin: Imagining the Tri Chord ( RA Publications 2007)
- Kyffin Williams (Lund Humphries 2004)
- The Art of Kyffin Williams (RA Publications 2007)
External links
- Home page
- http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp08574&role=art
- http://search.barnesandnoble.com/BookSearch/results.asp?ATH=Nicholas+Sinclair