Nicholas Sinclair - by Paul Moorhouse (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

The first monograph to examine Nicholas Sinclair's career as one of Britain's foremost portrait photographers.

This book features portraits from each decade of Nicholas Sinclair's career, beginning with the early circus photographs taken in the 1980s, previously unpublished photographs from The Chameleon Body and portraits of Britain's leading artists, including Frank Auerbach, Paula Rego, Anthony Caro and Gillian Ayres.

About the Author

Nicholas Sinclair is one of Britain's foremost portrait photographers with a career spanning more than forty years. Seven books of his work have been published since 1996 and in 2003 he was made a Hasselblad Master. His work has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums and is held in public collections throughout Europe, including the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in Venice and Albertina in Vienna. Paul Moorhouse is an art historian and curator. From 2020 to 2023, he was Chief Executive of the Anthony Caro Studio, Before that, he was Senior Curator and Head of Displays at the National Portrait Gallery, London (2005-2017) and Senior Curator at Tate (1985 -2005), where he was closely involved with the creation of Tate Modern and Tate Britain. He has curated numerous exhibitions internationally and published extensively, with books and exhibition catalogues on major modern and contemporary artists, including Anthony Caro, Salvador Dalí, Alberto Giacometti, Howard Hodgkin, Hans Hofmann, Richard Long, Gerhard Richter, Bridget Riley, Cindy Sherman and Andy Warhol. He lives and works in London.