Terry O'Neill
AUDREY SWIMS B&W (Lifetime signed) , 1966
Printed using the gelatin silver process — the same technique O'Neill used throughout his career, not a digital reproduction. This lifetime edition bears O'Neill's own hand signature, applied individually to each print. With O'Neill's passing in November 2019, no further signed editions can be produced. Each print is individually numbered and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity documenting full provenance.
AH092
AH092
Edition of 50
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Terry O'Neill spent the summer of 1966 on location with Audrey Hepburn as she filmed Two for the Road in St. Tropez and How to Steal a Million in Paris....
Terry O'Neill spent the summer of 1966 on location with Audrey Hepburn as she filmed Two for the Road in St. Tropez and How to Steal a Million in Paris. He was at the height of his powers; she was at the height of hers. The photographs he made during those months are among the most quietly beautiful of his career.
Where much of O'Neill's work crackled with energy and attitude, the Hepburn images have a different quality - unhurried, luminous, completely at ease. In one, a dove lands on her shoulder mid-shoot, entirely unplanned. She doesn't flinch. O'Neill fired the shutter. The result is one of those rare photographs that feels like it couldn't have been arranged.