Photographer of Men

 My favourite portraits by Howard Coster, who had a studio in London from 1926. He called himself a "Photographer of Men". The National Portrait Gallery in London has 9354 Coster portraits in their database.

G. K. Chesterton by Howard Coster, 1926

A.A. Milne, Christopher Robin Milne and Pooh Bear by Howard Coster, 1926

Vita Sackville-West by Howard Coster, c. 1927

Arnold Bennett by Howard Coster, September 1929

Benjamin Britten by Howard Coster, 1938

Evelyn Waugh by Howard Coster, 1930

George Bernard Shaw by Howard Coster, 1932

T.E. Lawrence by Howard Coster, October 13, 1931. Lawrence was killed on May 19, 1935.

Radclyffe Hall by Howard Coster, 1932. What a wonderful portrait of an LGBT icon.

E.H. Shepard by Howard Coster, 1932

Howard Coster's photo of John Gielgud as Romeo, & Peggy Ashcroft as Juliet, 1935

W. B. Yeats by Howard Coster, 1935

Alfred Hitchcock & Alma Reville by Howard Coster, 1936. This is one of my favourite shots of Hitch & Alma.

Augustus John by Howard Coster, 1937

W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and Stephen Spender by Howard Coster, 1937

E.M. Forster by Howard Coster, June 1938

Dorothy Sayers by Howard Coster, 1938

Dame Myra Hess by Howard Coster, 1940. This was taken at the National Gallery, where Hess gave lunchtime concerts during the Blitz to boost morale.

H.M. Bateman by Howard Coster, 1933

This is fun: "Photographing me", by H. M. Bateman, 1933.