Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon GCVO FRSA RDI was a British photographer and filmmaker. He married Princess Margaret, the sister of Queen Elizabeth II. He is best known for his portraits of world notables, many of them published in Vogue, Vanity Fair, and The Daily Telegraph magazine.
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Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon GCVO FRSA RDI was a British photographer and filmmaker. He married Princess Margaret, the sister of Queen Elizabeth II. He is best known for his portraits of world notables, many of them published in Vogue, Vanity Fair, and The Daily Telegraph magazine. His subjects include Marlene Dietrich; Laurence Olivier; Maggie Smith; Leslie Caron; Lynn Fontanne; David Bowie; Elizabeth Taylor; Rupert Everett; Anthony Blunt; David Hockney; Princess Grace of Monaco; Diana, Princess of Wales; Barbara Cartland; Raine Spencer; Harold Macmillan; Iris Murdoch; Tom Stoppard; Vladimir Nabokov and J. R. Tolkien. Over 100 of his photographs are in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery in London. In 1968 he made his first documentary, Don’t Count the Candles, which won seven Emmys. He later became the artistic adviser of The Sunday Times Magazine, and by the 1970s had established himself as one of Britain’s most respected photographers. In 2000 A Snowdon portrait of Freddie Mercury was used on the cover of his The Solo Collection set. More than 180 of his photos were displayed in an exhibition that travelled to Yale Center for British Art, which travelled to the British Center for Art, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, and the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale, Connecticut.
He was also an early contributor to Queen magazine, the magazine owned by his friend Jocelyn Stevens. In the early 1960s, Snowdon became the. artistic adviser to the Sunday Times. His first film, Count the Count, won seven Emmy awards including two Emmys, followed by Love of a kind about the British people of restricted growth. In 1981, he made a film about the small people of small towns, about the restricted growth being restricted being happy. In October 1981, a group of British rock band Queen were honoured by Snowdon for their cover of their Greatest Hits album. Snowdon was given a posthumous knighthood for his services to the arts in the 1990s. He died in a car crash in London in 1998, aged 83. He leaves behind a wife and a son, a daughter, a son-in-law and a step-daughter. He also leaves a son and a daughter. He has three grandchildren, two step-grandchildren and one step-great-grandchild. His great-grandmother was a first cousin of Elizabeth Linley, wife of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. His paternal grandmother was a graduate from Somerville College, Oxford.
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