O'Neill's Sixties icons
'Robert Redford and Richard Helms, CIA Advisor on 'Three Days of the Condor', Ryker's Island, New York', 1975. Copyright Terry O'Neill
They say that if you remember the Sixties, you weren't there. Terry O'Neill, however, was not only there but at the very epicentre of it all - and he remembers them vividly. At a time when British photography (and Britain itself) was at the height of its cool, O'Neill was part of that crop of young snappers who captured a feted generation on film and lived the wonderfully cliched Blow-Up existence that went with it. And O'Neill - like his contemporary David Bailey - really did exemplify the model: he photographed everyone from Frank Sinatra to Brigitte Bardot (above, 1971), hung out with The Beatles and married Faye Dunaway. Not bad for an East End working-class lad.








