The intimate image dialogue between one celebrated
photographer and another is an explicit theme of this exhibition with highlights including a
portrait of Eugene Atget by Berenice Abbott, Lee Miller by Man Ray, Man Ray by David Bailey, Helmut Newton by Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber by Horst, Henri Cartier - Bresson by Arnold Newman, and Andy Warhol by Sir Cecil Beaton among other remarkable examples which capture significant 20th - century figures who are
usually behind the camera.
I arrived at the
usually sedate National
Portrait Gallery to be confronted by a throng of eager reporters,
photographers and film crews from as far afield as Japan, testament to the popularity of one of the greatest British artists, the late Lucian Freud.