MICHAEL HALLETT INTERVIEWS PAMELA CHANDLER: A STYLE OF HER TIME. MICHAEL HALLETT TALKS TO PAMELA ELLA CHANDLER WHOSE DISTINCTIVE PORTRAIT STYLE PHOTOGRAPHED THE RICH AND FAMOUS IN THE 1950S AND 60S (TITLE)

4to. 15 printed typed pages enclosed in a plastic sleeve with white plastic spine. . Designated on the cover as 'Draft. Not for Publication' -- there is mention of 4 illustrations which are not in this version. Many pencil notes in the hand of the portrait photographer Pamela Chandler from whose estate this was purchased., some full page on the back of Hallett's typed pages. Of interest is a good paragraph about her photographing JRR Tolkien a session that she describes as taking place in his garage in Oxford, where he wrote - 'it was lined with books in all the different languages in which they had been published.' She became quite friendly with Tolkien and his wife and used to correspond with them occasionally. Other famous sitters included Robert Helpmann, a teenage Charlotte Rampling Harold Macmillan and Bertrand Russell Very good indeed.