Art and Film Since 1945: Hall of Mirrors; Museum of
Contemporary Art; Los Angeles (traveled to the Wexner
Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; Palazzo delle
Esposizioni, Rome, Italy; Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago, Illinois)Selected Works
Walking Women Works: Michael Snow, 1961–1967
Wavelength, 1966–1967 (film)
Atlantic, 1967
Michael Snow: A Survey, 1970
Cover to Cover, 1976
High School, 1979
The Special Image, 1986
The Michael Snow Project—Collected Writings, 1994
Further Reading
Cornwall, Regina.Snow Seen: The Films and Photographs
of Michael Snow. Toronto: Peter Martin Associates
Books, 1980.
de Duve, Thie ́rry. ‘‘Michael Snow’’ inPassages de l’image.
Paris: Muse ́e national d’art moderne, Centre Georges
Pompidou, 1990.
Dompierre, Louise.Walking Women Works: Michael Snow
1961–67. Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre,
1983.
Hoolboom, Mike.Inside the Pleasure Dome: Fringe Film in
Canada. Toronto: Gutter Press, 1997.
Keeler, Judy.Lives and Works of the Canadian Artists:
Michael Snow (1929–). Toronto: Dundern Press, 1977.
Leclerc, Denise.The Crisis of Abstraction in Canada: The
1950s. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1993.
Mekas, Jonas, Michael Snow and Pierre The ́berge.About
30 Works by Michael Snow. New York: Center for Inter-
American Relations, 1972.
Mudie, Peter.Michael Snow: Filmworks 1966–1991. Perth:
Bernt Porridge Group Publications, 1995.
The ́berge, Pierre and Christopher Dewdney.Michael Snow:
Selected Photographic Works. Los Angeles: Frederick S.
Wight Art Gallery, University of California, 1983.SNOWDON
(ANTHONY ARMSTRONG-JONES)
British
Snowdon is frequently referred to as a 1960s icon
but he continues to produce new and unpredictable
photographs. He has led a distinguished and varied
career with work that has spanned and crossed
over a variety of genres including society pho-
tography, portraiture, fashion, theatre, dance, so-
cial documentary, and topography and travel.
Born in 1930 to a barrister father and an heiress
mother, Anthony Armstrong-Jones self-styled him-
self as Snowdon in 1961. His parents divorced when
he was aged five and his childhood, and that of his
elder sister, Susan, was often spent at their father’s
Welsh estate. Following his schooling at Eton, he
went on to Jesus College, Cambridge, to read natural
sciences but soon transferred to architecture. He did
not gain his university qualification but was awarded
a ‘‘blue’’ because he coxed Cambridge to victory
over Oxford in the 1950 annual boat race. After
leaving Cambridge, Snowdon was a partner in
Owen Lloyd Car Hire, a line of business that reflects
his lifelong appreciation of stylish but functional
design. He soon went on to join the society pho-
tographer Baron de Merger as an assistant. Through
this important association and also through his
uncle, the celebrated interior and theatre designer
Oliver Messel, who received his CBE in 1958, Snow-
don was able to establish a studio home at 20 Pim-
lico Road in London from 1953 to 1960. He began
to take photographs in his own right for publications
such asTattler. He also published early photographs
inPicture Postin 1953. In 1954, an introduction to
the director Peter Glanville led to his first published
theatre photographs of Margaret Leighton and Eric
Portman in their roles in Terrence Rattigan’sSepa-
rate Tables. The popular newspapers the Daily
Expressand theWeekly Sketchwere soon to notice
Snowdon’s work, including the huge enlargements he
frequently displayed outside theatres to attract audi-SNOWDON (ANTHONY ARMSTRONG-JONES)