David Montgomery is a celebrated and award-winning international photographer.
Born in Brooklyn, in 1937, his dream was to become a musician but when that didn't work out, he turned his passion toward photography.
He studied in New York City under Alexi Brodevitch who was the art director of Harper’s Bazaar at the time, and had discovered Richard Avedon, Irving Penn and numerous others.
From there he went on to work for the award-winning photographer Lester Bookbinder for four years, joining Bookbinder on a trip to England in the early 1960’s. David fell in love with the soft, romantic English light and decided to stay in London.
He then worked for David King, art director of The Sunday Times, who started assigning him to cover music features and later commissioned him to shoot the cover for The Who Sell Out and the Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland Album covers.
Over the course of his career, David has captured portraits of many high profile statesmen and celebrities and was the first American to photograph HM Queen Elizabeth II in 1967.
He also photographed The Queen Mother, Prince Andrew, Prince Harry, Lord Mountbatten, Baroness Margaret Thatcher, Lord Hume, Edward Heath, Jack Straw, Bill Clinton, Pierre Trudeau, HM King Hussein, Cardinal Basil Hume, Andy Warhol, Lucien Freud, David Hockney, Francis Bacon, Howard Hodgkin, Josef Bouys, Bill Brant, Gilbert & George, Conrad Shawcross, Cathy de-Monchaux, Grayson Perry, Diana Ross & the Supremes, Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Jean Shrimpton, Terence Stamp, Professor Stephen Hawking, Alfred Hitchcock, Muhammad Ali, Bing Crosby, Sir Paul McCartney, Chrissy Hinde, Pierce Brosnan, Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery, Barbara Streisand, The Clash, U2, to name a few.
He contributed regularly to Vogue, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, Rolling Stone, House and Garden as well as many books including Designer’s Guild, Pulbrook & Gould and Nicky Haslam’s “Sheer Opulence”.
His Andy Warhol photographs were exhibited in the Andy Warhol: Self Portraits exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and have since been added to the permanent collection at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh.
In 2005, he was heralded by Q Magazine as having produced some of the most iconic images of the sixties.
A curated selection of his work is shown below. Please contact us with any questions or to inquire about additional works.