Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon

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During her lifetime, the Belgian-born British actress Audrey Hepburn (1929-93)star of such films asRoman Holiday,Sabrina,Funny Face,Breakfast of Tiffany's,My Fair Lady, and many morewas recognised around the world.Posthumously, her popularity has endured and her image continues to be reproduced in a variety of international cultural contexts.

Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon calls attention to the circumstances in which pictures of Hepburn have been published and consumed, thereby illuminating ourthe public'srelationship with the images over the course of the twentieth century. The book accompanies a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London (2 July18 October 2015), organised with support from the Audrey Hepburn Estate/Luca Dotti & Sean Hepburn Ferrer.

Alongside iconic portraits, Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon presents film stills and family photographs of Hepburn. Charted through over 145 portraits and supporting imges,Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icontraverses Heburn's early early years in London as a student of ballet and a performer on the West End stage, her Hollywood heyday, and her final years as a special ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

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Terence Pepper is Senior Special Advisor on Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and co-curator of the exhibitionAudrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon. From 1978 to 2014, he was the Gallery's Curator of Photographs. His past exhibitions include retrospectives on Norman Parkinson, Lewis Morley, Dorothy Wilding, Horst P. Horst and Cecil Beaton, among others. His publications include the award-winningVanity Fair Portraits,Beatles to Bowie, Hopp Portraits.

Helen Trompeteler is Associate Curator of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and co-curator ofAudrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon. Previously Assistant Curator of theMan Ray Portraitsexhibition, her past displays includeSnowdon: A Life in View andFred Daniels: Cinema Portraits, among others.