60s Celebrity portraits by Terry O’Neill

Terence Patrick O’Neill CBE (1938 – 2019) was a British photographer, known for documenting the fashions, styles, and celebrities of the 1960s.

O’Neill’s photographs capture his subjects candidly or in unconventional settings.His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions.

He was awarded an honorary fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 2004 and the society’s Centenary Medal in 2011. His work is held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.

French actress Catherine Deneuve dressed in white and surrounded by flowers in a scene from “Mayerling,” a historical romance directed by Terence Young, Terry O’Neill, 1968 via

French actress Brigitte Bardot in Deauville, 1968. It is the first time she meets British actor Sean Connery before the filming of ‘Shalako’, directed by Edward Dmytryk, Terry O’Neill, 1968 via

Marianne Faithfull by Terry O’Neill, 1967 via

The Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger posing in a fur parka, with a fur trimmed hood, 1964, by Terry O’Neill via

The Beatles by Terry O’Neill, 1964 via

Famous 1960s Female smokers

Jeanne Moreau by David Bailey, 1964 via

Mia Farrow by David Kennerly, 1969 via

Brigitte Bardot with cigarette in hand by photographer Michael Ochs, originally taken in 1962. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) via

Maria Callas on the set of “Médée” directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1969 via

Natalie Wood, 1963 © Bill Ray via

Sophia Loren in her Italian villa, 1964. Alfred Eisenstaedt The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock via

Anita Pallenberg smoking, 1960s via

Catherine Deneuve & Roger Vadim, 1963 via

Catherine Deneuve & author Francoise Sagan, 1968 via

Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful, 1960s via

Brigitte Bardot and her Musician Boyfriend Sacha Distel in St. Tropez (1958)

Brigitte Bardot and Sacha Distel, St Tropez, France by Burt Glinn, 1958 via

Brigitte Bardot and Sacha Distel, St Tropez, France by Burt Glinn, 1958 via

Brigitte Bardot and Sacha Distel, St Tropez, France by Burt Glinn, 1958 via

 

Very Sophisticated Fashion Photography by Georges Dambier

Georges Dambier did not conform to the standard technique of taking fashion pictures, with models standing emotionless and seemingly indifferent to the camera. Instead, he showed models smiling, laughing and often in action. His models were surrounded by local people in a market place in Marrakech, or in a village in Corsica, or – and above all – in his beloved Paris.

Georges Dambier Marie Helene Arnaud the red fish Magazine Elle 1957 via

Georges Dambier Girl umbrella Concorde Place via

Sophie Malgat Litvak in Jacques Fath Coat, photographed by George Dambier for ELLE, 1953 via

Portrait of Brigitte Bardot by Georges Dambier, 1954 via

Georges Dambier Marie Helene Arnaud, Antibes Mirror  via

Ivy Nicholson in Jacques Fath Dress, photographed by Georges Dambier for Nouveau Femina, 1954 via

Brigitte Bardot Dressed in Vintage Balmain for “The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful” (1956)

The Bride is Much Too Beautiful is a 1956 French comedy film directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit.

It was also known as Her Bridal Night and La mariée est trop belle.

The wedding dress that Bardot wears in the film is by French designer Pierre Balmain.

Brigitte Bardot in The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit, 1956. Dress by Pierre Balmain via

Brigitte Bardot in The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit, 1956. Dress by Pierre Balmain via

Brigitte Bardot in The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit, 1958. Dress by Pierre Balmain via

Brigitte Bardot in The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit, 1956  via

Brigitte Bardot (1960s)

Unknown ‘Brigitte Bardot’ 1966 via

Unknown ‘Brigitte Bardot’ 1966 via

Vintage Photos of Brigitte Bardot on the Film Set of “Le Mépris” (1963)

Le Mépris or Contempt is a 1963 French-Italian drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, based on the Italian novel Il disprezzo (A Ghost at Noon) by Alberto Moravia.

It stars Brigitte Bardot as Camille Javal, the wife of Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli), a young French playwright who has found commercial success in Rome, and accepts an offer from vulgar American producer Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance) to rework the script for German director Fritz Lang’s screen adaptation of The Odyssey.

Brigitte Bardot on the set of Le Mépris directed by Jean-Luc Godard, 1963. Photo by Tazio Secchiaroli via

Brigitte Bardot on the set of Le Mépris directed by Jean-Luc Godard, 1963. Photo by Tazio Secchiaroli via

Brigitte Bardot on the set of Le Mépris directed by Jean-Luc Godard, 1963. Photo by Tazio Secchiaroli via

Le Mépris directed by Jean-Luc Godard, 1963. Photo by Tazio Secchiaroli via

Le Mépris directed by Jean-Luc Godard, 1963. Photo by Tazio Secchiaroli via

Brigitte Bardot and Roger Vadim’s wedding (1952)

On 21 December 1952, aged 18, Brigitte Bardot married director Roger Vadim in Paris. The couple met after the bourgeois Bardot appeared on the cover of a magazine and the director Marc Allégret, who Vadim was assisting, invited her to do a screen test. When her family forbade the teen from seeing the much older Vadim, she attempted suicide.

In the sixties, Bardot paved the way for the off-the-rack, no-fuss, leg-exposing bride. On her weddding to Vadim she wore a high-collared, bustled dress accessorized with muff and veil. According to the groom:

“Brigitte designed and chose the material for the white, handsewn wedding dress from Madame Ogive, the dressmaker on the Rue de Passy.” (source)

The couple divorced in 1957, but remained friends and collaborated in later work.

Brigitte Bardot and Roger Vadim’s wedding, 1952 via

Brigitte Bardot and Roger Vadim’s wedding, 1952 via

Brigitte Bardot and Roger Vadim’s wedding, 1952 via

Brigitte Bardot and Roger Vadim’s wedding, 1952 via

Brigitte Bardot and Roger Vadim’s wedding, 1952 via

Brigitte Bardot’s Wedding to Actor Jacques Charrier (1959)

On 18 June 1959 Brigitte Bardot married fellow actor Jacques Charrier, her costar in Babette Goes to War.

The wedding took place in Louveciennes, France. The bride wore a coquettish pink gingham shirtwaist by Jacques Esterel as her wedding dress. When the actual marriage was to take place photographers burst into the registry office and formally asked Brigitte for permission to photograph the ceremony. Brigitte allegedly stamped her foot and shouted ‘Non, non, non.’ Then buried her face in her hands and burst into sobs.

Bardot and Charrier divorced in 1962. They had one son, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, Bardot´s only child, born in 1960. Nicolas was raised in the Charrier family and did not maintain close contact with Bardot until his adulthood.

Brigitte Bardot’s wedding to actor Jacques Charrier, Louveciennes, France, 1959 via

Brigitte Bardot’s wedding to actor Jacques Charrier, Louveciennes, France, 1959 via

Brigitte Bardot’s wedding to actor Jacques Charrier, Louveciennes, France, 1959 via

Vintage Photos of Bouffant Hairdos

A bouffant is characterized by hair raised high on the head and usually covering the ears or hanging down on the sides.

The modern bouffant was noted by Life in the summer of 1956 as being “already a common sight in fashion magazines.”

The style became popular at the beginning of the 1960s when First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy was often photographed with her hair in a bouffant, and her style was widely imitated. Generally speaking, by the mid-1960s many well-dressed women and girls were wearing some form of bouffant hairdo, which in one variation or another remained the fashionable norm until the end of the decade.

Priscilla Presley with bouffant hair via

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Entertainer Dolly Parton in a 1968 publicity photo for Monument Records and Moeller Talent via

Brigitte Bardot with bouffant hair via

Studio photograph of Natalie Wood, 1964 via

Hayley Mills with bouffant hair, 1967 via

Joan Collins with bouffant hair via