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photojournalist

Terence Spencer was a photojournalist, his work, including aerial and underwater work, has appeared in such publications as Smithsonian, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, Time, and Paris-Match.

Background

Terence Spencer was born on March 8, 1918, in Bedford, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom.

Education

Terence Spencer attended Birmingham University for two years before the start of World War II.

Career

Since 1972 Terence Spencer has freelanced, mainly for Time-Life. He photographed for Life magazine from 1952 to 1972, covering the Black African continent and Southeast Asia until 1963, when he joined the magazine's London bureau.

Prior to that, Terence Spencer ran an aerial photographic business. He won the Picture of the Year award from the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) in 1964 and an award from World Press Photo at The Hague in 1969.

The photographer's essays for Life were on such topics as the Beatles, Abu Simbel, the 1967 Israeli war, Biafran starvation, Bobby Kennedy in the Ivory Coast, Vietnam, and the Mau Mau in Kenya.

Works

  • photography

    • The Beatles

      (Terence Spencer toured with the Beatles for six months, d...)

      1964
    • The Smiths

      (This photograph of The Smiths was taken in their mid-1980...)

      1985
    • Robert Plant

      (Here the Led Zeppelin lead singer is walking through his ...)

      1976
    • Marianne Faithfull

      (When Spencer shot Marianne Faithfull, she was living on l...)

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