Give us this day our daily bird is a series we introduced as part of John d Green’s incredible Birds of Britain exhibition.
Many of the ladies that John d Green photographed in 1966/7 are very well-known – like Pattie Boyd here. Others, less so. To my mind, they all have equal billing, as they were all willing subjects in a very special project that happened fifty years ago. Some of the ladies have, sadly, passed away, but many are still with us. Each has a story.
Over the course fifty posts, we shared what we discovered from our research into each of these fabulous subjects and their sessions with John d Green. Each day we focused on a different lady from John d Green’s Birds of Britain archive.
They all feature in this incredible large format limited edition book.
Check them out below.
Give us this day our daily bird #32 – Annabella Macartney
John d Green photographed Annabella Macartney for Birds of Britain on 11 May 1966 at his Kensington studio. She was 23 at the time and a well known model and face on the scene - [...]
Give us this day our daily bird #31 – Mary Quant
John d Green photographed Mary Quant OBE for Birds of Britain at his Kensington studio on 12 October 1966. At the time she was 32. The daughter of Welsh school teachers living in London, Mary [...]
Give us this day our daily bird #30 – Shirley Anne Field
John d Green photographed Shirley Anne Field for Birds of Britain on 23 March 1967 at his Kensington studio. She was 28 at the time. He recalled the session vividly in a 1967 newspaper interview: [...]
Give us this day our daily bird #29 – Edina Ronay
Here's Edina Ronay, photographed for Birds of Britain by John d Green in his Kensington studio on 13 July 1966. She came to see us at the gallery in October 2016, fifty years on, and [...]
Give us this day our daily bird #28 – Jane Birkin (Jane Barry)
Here's 19 year old Jane Barry – later Jane Birkin – photographed by John d Green for Birds of Britain on 17 June 1966 at his Kensington studio. This photograph was not included in the [...]
Give us this day our daily bird #27 – Pattie Boyd
This previously unpublished photograph of Pattie Boyd was taken by John d Green at his Kensington studio for Birds of Britain on 25 August 1966. She was 22 at the time of the session. This [...]
