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Remember, Parks, there is nothing more un-chic than a palm tree.
© Norman Parkinson and ABG Images (UK) Ltd
Dont let me see one in your pictures.
Barbara Mullen poses in front of the Taj Mahal for BritishVogues November 1956 issue.
Many of them, alongside his striking royal portraits andVoguecovers, are published this month ina new collection.
Models wearing a variety of hats on the roof of the Condé Nast building on Lexington Avenue for a 1950s issue ofVogue.
Apollonia van Ravenstein at the Crane Beach Hotel in Barbados in 1973.
Model Jerry Hall posing for a 1975 cover.
For Parkinson, by then in his 50s, Tobago offered up refuge from the hectic fashion merry-go-round.
Barbara Mullen poses in front of the Taj Mahal for BritishVogue’s November 1956 issue.
After a quarter-century of non-stop work and travel, he admitted to fatigue and a need to step away.
A beachside composition that would grace the cover of BritishVogues July 1949 issue.
Iman wearing a Jane Cattlin bikini, photographed in Tobago in 1976.
Apollonia van Ravenstein at the Crane Beach Hotel in Barbados in 1973.
But trouble was brewing in paradise.
A hurricane wreaked havoc on their Caribbean idyll and much of their home had to be rebuilt.
Yet worse was to come.
Model Jerry Hall posing for a 1975 cover.
Four weeks to the day the Tobago house burned down.
I feel that my identity, he wrote, has been blown away in smoke… said Parkinson.
For the next three years, he took any work he could get to overcome the double tragedy.
A beachside composition that would grace the cover of BritishVogue’s July 1949 issue.
He made several return visits to England, to the Thames Valley where as a child hed been evacuated.
Parkinson died aged 76 in Singaporestill working, still on location, camera in hand.
Style: Photographs for Vogueby Norman Parkinson is out now
Iman wearing a Jane Cattlin bikini, photographed in Tobago in 1976.
