Gordon Anthony

Background

Gordon Anthony was born in 1902 Wicklow, Ireland.

Education

Anthony attended the School of the Royal Architectural Association in 1919.

Career

From 1920 to 1932 he was on the managerial staff of Watney Combe Reide, Ltd., in London and for the next twenty years he freelanced as a photographer. He also served as the official portrait photographer for the Air Ministry in London, 1943-45. From 1952 to 1972 Anthony was an antiques dealer in London.

Anthony's 1948 book, Studies of Dancers, was the first book of color photographs to be published in England.

Achievements

• PUBLICATIONS Books: A Camera at the Bal¬let: Pioneer Dancers of the Royal Ballet, 1975 (David & Charles Newton Abbot); Beryl Grey, intro, by Arnold L. Haskell, 1952, Dancers of the World, 1952, The Sadler’s Wells Ballet, 1952, Alicia Markova, 1951, Margot Fonteyn, 1950 (Phoenix House: London); Studies of Dancers, 1948, Ballerina: Further Studies of Margot Fonteyn, intro, by Eveleigh Leith, 1945, Air Aces, 1944 (Home & Van Thai: London); The Sadler’s Wells Ballet: Camera Studies, intro, by Eveleigh Leith, 1942, 2nd ed., 1948 (G. Bles: London); Sleeping Princess, Nadia Benois, Arnold Haskell, Constant Lambert, 1942 (Routledge & Sons: London); Russian Ballet, 1939, föhn Gielgud; Camera Studies by Gordon Anthony, intro, by Michel Saint-Denis, 1938 (G. Bles: London); The VicWells Ballet, intro, by Ninette de Valois, 1938 (Routledge & Sons: London); Ballet, intro. & notes by Arnold Haskell, 1937 (G. Bles: London); Markova: a Collection of Photographic Studies, foreword by Ninette de Valois, 1935 (Chatto & Windus: London); Massine, preface by Sacheve- rell Sitwell, n.d. (London).