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 #20 – Paula Noble
“Paula Noble was a typical 60s girl, full of confidence, very beautiful and very successful. A very good model who had a good business brain.” John d Green John photographed Paula Noble for Birds of [...]
Give us this day our daily bird #19 – Vicki Hodge
Larger-than-life actress and model Vicki Hodge is no stranger to the tabloid press and has been making headlines since the mid-sixties. John d Green photographed her for Birds of Britain in a bathtub in his [...]
Give us this day our daily bird #18 – Jane Asher
Here's Jane Asher, twenty years old, photographed on 14 October 1966 by John d Green for Birds of Britain. John remembered the spontaneous nature of the session: “Two hours before Jane Asher, the actress friend of Paul McCartney, [...]
Give us this day our daily bird #17 – Victoria Mills
“Victoria had long fair hair and a body of Amazonian magnificence – just the kind of looks that I imagined drove men mad in the gambling saloons of the American west. So that was how [...]
Give us this day our daily bird #16 – Cilla Black
John d Green photographed Cilla Black for Birds of Britain on 24 August 1966 on a beach near Blackpool. Cilla was 23 at the time of the shoot and had already achieved significant chart success. Cilla [...]
Give us this day our daily bird #15 – Marianne Faithfull
John d Green photographed Marianne Faithfull (and her cat) for Birds of Britain on 25 August 1966. The location for the session was Marianne Faithfull's London home – one of the few sessions that took [...]
