Students of photography everywhere will be familiar with the name, John Hedgecoe, the award-winning photographer and best-selling author of more than 30 books on photography, who died on 3 June at the age of 73.

 

June 8, 2010: Students of photography everywhere will be familiar with the name, John Hedgecoe, the award-winning photographer and best-selling author of more than 30 books on photography, who died on 3 June at the age of 73.
Widely known as ø¢â‚¬Ëœthe man who taught the world to photograph’, Hedgecoe is famous for two books: The Manual of Photography and The Photographer’s Handbook, which have been published in 37 languages. More than 30 million copies of these books have been sold worldwide. Hedgecoe was also instrumental in establishing the department of Photography at the Royal College of Art in the UK in the mid-1960s. He became the first professor of photography in the UK in 1975.
As a photographer, Hedgecoe is best known for his portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, which was used by the sculptor Arnold Machin to create an official plaster version. More than 200 billion copies of this image have been printed on British and Commonwealth stamps. He began taking photos in his teens and established himself as a leading UK portraitist in the 1960s. His work is represented in art collections worldwide.