'Unseen' Bond images discovered

AlexAlex The Eastern SeaboardPosts: 2,694MI6 Agent
http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/unseen_bond_images_by_photographer_terry_oneill_discovered_update_news_305602.html (images might not be safe for work)

Previously unseen images by Terry O'Neill – including pictures from early James Bond films – have been discovered during research of the celebrity photographer's archive.

The finds, which were made in the past few months, include a photo of Bond actor Sean Connery 'off duty' with showgirls in Las Vegas and Honor Blackman in a 'provocative' Pussy Galore shoot that was never published.

The pictures – many from the Sixties - are due to go on show next month at an exhibition in London entitled Terry O'Neill: 50 Years At The Top.

Work on display will include the photographer's famous 1971 image of Brigitte Bardot smoking a cigar (see below).

O'Neill said: 'The Sixties were an incredible time. Young people took over, creating their own cultural landscape on stage in music, fashion and on the film set.

'I was lucky… Seriously lucky. I was in the right place at the right time. But I never realised then that we were remaking the world in our own image – or that mine would become such a testament to the time.

O'Neill is grateful for the freedom he was given, on film sets, backstage and 'just rubbing shoulders with my mates who became these icons' - something not available to photographers today, he said.

'Now, image is everything; the stars are brands and their management control access and publication, so we never get to see them as they really are at work, rest or play.'

Comments

  • Barry NelsonBarry Nelson ChicagoPosts: 1,508MI6 Agent
    Nice find Alex, hard to believe, but Sean actually looks bored in his picture, or maybe his mind was elsewhere. Something about the early Bond that I love, even these black and white pictures makes me nostalgic for the Bond films of old.
  • HardyboyHardyboy Posts: 5,906Chief of Staff
    I'm pretty sure I saw the shot of Connery and the showgirl some place before. . .maybe I just have an eye for such things! But, as Barry says, it's a great find, Alex--always nice to see the "reality" behind Bond. And is Honor making an offer? :D
    Vox clamantis in deserto
  • Mark HazardMark Hazard West Midlands, UKPosts: 495MI6 Agent
    I too have seen the showgirl picture (maybe Playboy?). The "pussy" picture is in For Bond Lovers Only, and I'm sure I've even got a copy of the Bardot picture - mistakenly credited as coming from Shalako.
  • superadosuperado Regent's Park West (CaliforniaPosts: 2,656MI6 Agent
    Nice find Alex, hard to believe, but Sean actually looks bored in his picture, or maybe his mind was elsewhere.

    I don't know, it looks like the classic male teen "daydreaming while in class" poker face. To borrow from an often used phrase, " ...is that a pistol he's nursing in his pocket?"
    "...the purposeful slant of his striding figure looked dangerous, as if he was making quickly for something bad that was happening further down the street." -SMERSH on 007 dossier photo, Ch. 6 FRWL.....
  • AlexAlex The Eastern SeaboardPosts: 2,694MI6 Agent
    Or maybe Sean followed the five second rule.

    "Looking at a cleavage is like looking at the sun. You don't stare at it. It's too risky. You get a sense of it and then you look away." (Seinfeld)
  • AlexAlex The Eastern SeaboardPosts: 2,694MI6 Agent
    A small slideshow featuring more photographs by Terry O'Neill.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12817042
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    There is an exhibition with pics from the "Stern" archive in Hamburg - including this one on the set of TMWTGG:

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    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • Markyb64Markyb64 Posts: 86MI6 Agent
    One image I've only ever seen once (and still can't find it anywhere) is one with Roger Moore taken during the making of Live & Let Die and he seems to be sitting behind an anti aircraft gun, which is shown in the films main poster but somehow never made it into the final cut. Anyone help with the picture and what it's involvement was in the story line??
  • sniperUKsniperUK UlsterPosts: 594MI6 Agent
    Markyb64 wrote:
    One image I've only ever seen once (and still can't find it anywhere) is one with Roger Moore taken during the making of Live & Let Die and he seems to be sitting behind an anti aircraft gun, which is shown in the films main poster but somehow never made it into the final cut. Anyone help with the picture and what it's involvement was in the story line??

    I remember the pic, Bofors 37mm, I believe it was taken on a Coastguard cutter moored close to where the filming of the LST explosion was being filmed.
  • Markyb64Markyb64 Posts: 86MI6 Agent
    sniperUK wrote:
    Markyb64 wrote:
    One image I've only ever seen once (and still can't find it anywhere) is one with Roger Moore taken during the making of Live & Let Die and he seems to be sitting behind an anti aircraft gun, which is shown in the films main poster but somehow never made it into the final cut. Anyone help with the picture and what it's involvement was in the story line??

    I remember the pic, Bofors 37mm, I believe it was taken on a Coastguard cutter moored close to where the filming of the LST explosion was being filmed.
    So it seems it was used for publicity purposes only. It's a shame as a young lad the Bond posters always told in the detail of the artwork what was to come!!!
  • GrindelwaldGrindelwald Posts: 1,341MI6 Agent
    "The finds, which were made in the past few months, include a photo of Bond actor Sean Connery 'off duty' with showgirls in Las Vegas and Honor Blackman in a 'provocative' Pussy Galore shoot that was never published"

    First I've seen before and the other one where she writes "PG" in the sand I've in a magazine.

    I've some rare OHMSS that many haven't seen , stay tuned.
  • Absolutely_CartAbsolutely_Cart NJ/NYC, United StatesPosts: 1,740MI6 Agent
    do these include the personal effects recovered from skyfall?
  • ggl007ggl007 SpainPosts: 388MI6 Agent
  • GrindelwaldGrindelwald Posts: 1,341MI6 Agent
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