Donovan

Terence (1936-1996). English photographer. His first jobs were in London, on Fleet Street, as a lithographer and pressman. At the age of 15, he became interested in photography. In 1959, after an apprenticeship as an assistant to the photographers Adrian Flowers, John Adriaan, and John French, he opened his own studio and started to make a name for himself with advertising campaigns and fashion articles published in Vogue England, Queen, Men About Town, and Nova. He was famous for his choice of London streets as backgrounds for the photos which typified the style of Swinging London and qualified Donovan as the photographer who best interpreted, with his black-and-white images, the spirit of the ’60s, along with his colleagues Duffy and Bailey. In addition to his photographic work, he was a noted director of TV commercials. Between 1976, the year of his first film, Yellow Dog, and 1996, he made more than 3,000.