Terence Pepper Collection
Date range: 1950’s - 2000’s
Medium: Printed
Number of items: c.800
Terence Pepper is a curator, editor and consultant on pop-cultural imagery and vintage photography for exhibition and publication. Previously Terence worked as Curator of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery from 1978 until January 2014.
In 1981 Terence curated his first major exhibition on the photographer Norman Parkinson - Norman Parkinson: 50 Years of Portraits and Fashion, which was shown subsequently in a reduced form in New York at Sotheby’s and at The National Academy of Design.
Major exhibitions followed throughout his tenure at the NPG including a survey of the work of Howard Coster, Twenty for Today which comprised a survey of contemporary photographers whose work had appeared in the new style journals of the 1980’s including The Face, Blitz and I-D, exhibitions on Helmut Newton, Man Ray and Cecil Beaton.
Terence has instigated and been involved in the research and development of various publications including the first monograph of the photographer Lewis Morley, James Abbe: The Lure of the Limelight, High Society: Photographs 1897-1914, Man Ray: Portraits, Vanity Fair portraits, and Beatles to Bowie – a publication and exhibition developed with Jon Savage.
In 2013 Terence worked with the University of Dundee and the NPG producing two displays on the work of photographer Michael Peto at the National Portrait Gallery and at the New York Public Library, and with Clare Freestone on Scandal ’63 marking the 50th anniversary of the Keeler-Profumo affair.
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Cataloguing of the collection is in process. Any current requests to view materials from this archive should be directed to the curator via the Special Collections reading rooms.
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