Peter Akehurst and Hubertus Kanus
We were saddened to learn recently of the deaths of two of the library's photographic contributors, Peter Akehurst and Hubertus Kanus.
Peter began his career as a photojournalist but moved into fashion photography, becoming David Bailey's first assistant and sharing a studio with Lord Snowdon. It was his work as a staff photographer for the hip and happening London Life magazine, part of the ILN archive, that connected
Peter to us here at the library. As well as his work for the magazine, we also represent Peter's fashion and celebrity photographs from the 1970s and '80s including some arresting portraits of figures such as boxer Henry Cooper and writer, Chester Himes. The photograph here,
taken by Terence Donovan, shows Peter in 1965, flanked by four female members of staff from London Life magazine.
Click here to view a selection of Peter's images.
Hubertus Kanus was a long-standing contributor to Barnaby's Picture Library before the collection came under the ownership of Mary Evans, and during his travels around the globe continued to provide us with photographs of cities and sites with a historical flavour right up until
his later years.
You can browse Hubertus's globe-trotting collection here.
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