Brian Seed joined Time-Life as a photographer in London at the age of 16, and learned from one of the best - he worked as an assistant to Cornell Capa. Like many magazine photographers of the time, he did a bit of everything, from photojournalism to sports and landscapes. But he was especially adept at capturing portrait subjects in unguarded, honest moments.
My favourite Brian Seed photograph: Charles Laughton as Bottom in Peter Hall's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Royal Shakespeare Company, 1958.
Brian Seed's portrait of Benjamin Britten at the shore in Aldeburgh, Sussex, 1964.
Jacqueline Du Pre by Brian Seed, 1958. She's practicing in her London apartment.
I love this Brian Seed portrait of Clement Atlee in Margate, 1955.
Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller arrive for the opening night of Miller's "A View from The Bridge", at the Comedy Theatre, London, October 11, 1956.
Barbara Hepworth by Brian Seed, 1958. She's in the garden of her home in St. Ives, Cornwall, now the home of the Tate's Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Katharine Hepburn by Brian Seed. This was taken on the set of Ralph Thomas's The Iron Petticoat, 1956.
Brian Seed's photo of mathematician & historian Jacob Bronowski for Life magazine, from 1962.
Kenneth Tynan by Brian Seed, 1961. This was taken at The Establishment, a London nightclub.
Brian Seed's photo of Graham Greene in his apartment, 1957.
Colin Wilson by Brian Seed, 1956.
Jack Smith by Brian Seed for Life magazine, 1956. The painting is Mother Bathing Child, 1953, now in the Tate.
Another Brian Seed portrait of Benjamin Britten, this one taken in Britten's study in 1964. A print is in the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Cassius Clay signs autographs in 1963; he was in London for a fight with Henry Cooper, which he won. Brian Seed took a series of photos for Life magazine, before the boxer changed his name to Muhammed Ali.
Coming to Cornwall on July 1, 2023: an exhibition of the photography of Brian Seed at Penwith Gallery in St. Ives. More information here:
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