Cerdyn Nadolig, 1956
McBEAN, Angus (McBean began his career in the theatre as mask-maker and scenery designer before turning to full-time theatre photography. McBean is renowned for his theatrical and inventive photography of the 1930s and 1940s. Imitated throughout his career, his influence especially in advertising is still prominent today.
In 1935 he opened his own studio; and his prominent style was soon being published in glossy magazines. The Surrealist Exhibition in 1936 was an influence on McBean's theatrical portraits. After the Second World War he opened a larger studio in Covent Garden, and in the 1940s and 1950s was inundated with commissions from theatre companies. In the 1960s McBean photographed the Beatles for their first album.)
Cynhyrchodd Angus McBean gerdyn Nadolig hunanbortread i’w hanfon i ffrindiau a theulu bron bob blwyddyn o 1933 tan 1985. Mae’r cardiau’n dogfennu’r newid mewn chwaeth gyfoes ac yn ymddangosiad y ffotograffydd wrth iddo heneiddio. Maen nhw’n hynod o bersonol a ffraeth, ac yn dangos ei allu diddiwedd i arloesi’n dechnegol. Yn ei hunangofiant sydd heb ei chyhoeddi, Look Back In Angus, ysgrifenna McBean “Rydw i wedi defnyddio bron pob dyfais ffotograffig hysbys i blygu’r cyfrwng anhydrin i fy ewyllys, a sawl tro bu’n ddinoethiad niferus”. Mae’r ffotograff hwn yn cynnwys tair dol ffasiwn yn gwisgo dillad yn steil y dylunydd Ffrengig chwedlonol Paul Poiret (1879-1944), ffigwr McBean a dau ffigwr o bartner McBean, David Ball. Maen nhw i gyd yn deithwyr ar yr S.S. Angus. Mae’r thema streipiog yn cyfeirio at gynllun addurniadol enwog a grëwyd gan McBean ar gyfer yr ystafell Marquee yn yr Academy Cinema, Oxford Street, ym 1954.
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NMW A 28779
Creu/Cynhyrchu
Dyddiad: 1956
Derbyniad
Gift, 7/3/2007
Given by Kingsley Atkinson
Mesuriadau
h(cm) image size:16.8
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w(cm) image size:23.8
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h(cm) primary support:16.9
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w(cm) primary support:24
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h(cm) mount:19
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w(cm) mount:51.9
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Techneg
photographic print on card
gelatin silver print
