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David Newell-Smith

18 May 2019

  • Bridget Riley in front of a piece of her Op art in May 1969.

    Observer picture archive
    Observer picture archive: Bridget Riley, 25 May 1969

    David Newell-Smith captured the artist in her London studio, ahead of a national tour of her drawings.

11 May 2019

  • Sit-in on the Place Denfert-Rochereau, Paris, 10 May 1968.

    Observer picture archive
    Observer picture archive: students demonstrate in Paris, 10 May 1968

    David Newell-Smith covered the events in the French capital, which culminated in ‘the night of the barricades’

13 April 2019

  • Shirley Bassey at the Talk of the Town in London on 16 April 1970.

    Observer picture archive
    Observer picture archive: Shirley Bassey, 16 April 1970

    David Newell-Smith photographed the singer in concert in London, and music critic Tony Palmer reviewed her performance

30 March 2019

  • Harold Wilson in silhouette.

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    Observer picture archive: Harold Wilson, 5 April 1969

    Photographer David Newell-Smith joined the Prime Minister on a short Easter holiday on the Isles of Scilly

26 January 2019

  • A previously unpublished photograph of the crowd in the Cockpit at the Rolling Stones’ Hyde Park concert on 5 July 1969.

    Observer picture archive
    Observer picture archive: Lost and found, part 3

    In the last of a three-part feature, the Observer’s picture editor looks at treasures unearthed while researching the paper’s archive

29 December 2018

  • Twiggy, 1966

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22 December 2018

  • Judy Garland and her fiance Micky Deane, arrives in London for cabaret season at Talk of Town.

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    Observer picture archive: Judy Garland, 28 December 1968

    Photographers David Newell-Smith and Bryn Campbell captured the arrival in London of the troubled star and her concert at the Talk of the Town

11 November 2018

  • A crush of commuters at London’s Charing Cross station in 1964.

    Observer picture archive
    Observer picture archive: Lost and found

    David Newell-Smith’s beautiful photograph is a perfect example of the discoveries and frustrations borne of searching through the Observer’s picture library, explored in a three part feature

1 September 2018

  • Mick Jagger, 1964

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    Observer picture archive: Mick Jagger, 4 September 1964

    David Newell-Smith photographed the 21 year-old Rolling Stones frontman before their gig at the Astoria Theatre in Finsbury Park, London.

11 August 2018

  • Twiggy in London in 1966.

    Observer picture archive
    Observer picture archive: Twiggy, 12 August 1966

    Of photographing the model, David Newell-Smith said: “She’s a product of the photographer’s imagination. I’ve tried to suggest this by increasing the contrast to emphasise the lines of the composition, the oval shapes that blend into each other giving an overall abstract effect.”

22 July 2018

  • Czech students dancing in a jazz club in Prague.

    Observer picture archive
    Observer picture archive: The Prague Spring, 27 July 1968

    David Newell-Smith documented the lives of ordinary Czechs in Prague as they embraced First secretary Dubček’s liberalising political reforms. Less than a month later, on 21 August 1968, Warsaw Pact tanks rolled in.

1 July 2018

  • The Rolling Stones in Hyde Park on 5 July 1969

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    Observer picture archive: The Rolling Stones in Hyde Park, 5 July 1969

    Photographer David Newell-Smith joined the mighty throng at the free concert in London.

13 May 2018

  • Street fighting in The Gorbals, Glasgow. 18 May 1968 Neg no. 14 slum GNM Archive ref: OBS/6/9/3/1/1/C2 box 8

    Observer picture archive
    Observer picture archive: The Gorbals, 18 May 1968

    Photographer David Newell-Smith travelled to Scotland to document life in the notorious area of Glasgow.

6 May 2018

  • Abandoned cars on the Walworth Road in London.

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    Observer picture archive: Road wrecks, 6 May 1966

    Car dumping was widespread across Britain in the sixties. Photographer David Newell-Smith documented the blight for page one of the Observer.

29 April 2018

  • Portuguese marines lounge around in Lisbon.

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    Observer picture archive: The Carnation Revolution, 5 May 1974

    Following the peaceful coup on 25 April, photographer David Newell-Smith travelled to Portugal to document the changes

1 April 2018

  • Cliff Richard at Eurovision Song Contest 1968.

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    Observer picture archive: Eurovision Song Contest, 6 April 1968

    Photographer David Newell-Smith captured Cliff Richard singing Congratulations at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Cliff came second, losing by one point to the Spain’s entry, La, La, La.

28 January 2018

  • A rousing reception: Robert Kennedy in the Union hall, Oxford.

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    Observer picture archive: Robert Kennedy at the Oxford Union, 28 January 1967

    Photographer David Newell-Smith travelled to Oxford to cover the American senator’s visit to the university, for the following day’s Observer.

5 September 2017

  • Disc Jockeys of Radio 1 - Tony Blackburn, 30 September 1967 GNM Archive ref: OBS/6/9/2/1/R

    Archive teaching resource
    One-derful! David Newell-Smith's photographs of the first Radio 1 DJs

    Observer photographer David Newell-Smith captured the first broadcasts from Radio 1 when it launched in September 1967. Made a staff photographer in 1964, Newell-Smith recorded much of the swinging 60s that the new BBC station hoped to reflect with its young, pirate-radio-trained DJs. His work is held in the GNM Archive.

22 July 2017

  • Student riots in Paris, 11 April 1968

    David Newell-Smith: ‘There is nothing I would rather do than take photographs’

  • Twiggy in December 1967

    David Newell-Smith: the art of the newspaper photographer

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