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Stuart Heydinger (5 May 1927 – 6 October 2019) was a British photojournalist and portrait photographer. He was chief photographer at ''
The Observer ''The Observer'' is a British newspaper published on Sundays. It is a sister paper to ''The Guardian'' and '' The Guardian Weekly'', whose parent company Guardian Media Group Limited acquired it in 1993. First published in 1791, it is the ...
'' from 1960 to 1966.


Life and work

Heydinger was born in
Kingston upon Thames Kingston upon Thames (hyphenated until 1965, colloquially known as Kingston) is a town in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, southwest London, England. It is situated on the River Thames and southwest of Charing Cross. It is notable ...
, south west London. In 1960 he joined ''
The Observer ''The Observer'' is a British newspaper published on Sundays. It is a sister paper to ''The Guardian'' and '' The Guardian Weekly'', whose parent company Guardian Media Group Limited acquired it in 1993. First published in 1791, it is the ...
'' as chief photographer until he quit in 1966. He freelanced until 1968. In the early 1970s he travelled in the Basque country, drawing, painting and photographing people. In 1979 he moved to Germany where he worked taking photographs for theatres and made landscape photographs.


Publications

*''Just a Moment ... Fotografien von Stuart Heydinger.'' Bremen, Germany: Schuenemann, 2007. .


Solo exhibitions

*''Just a Moment: Photographs by Stuart Heydinger,'' Kingston Museum, Kingston upon Thames, 2008/2009


Collections

* National Portrait Gallery, London: 1 print (as of November 2019)


References


External links


"The photojournalism of Stuart Heydinger"
a gallery of photographs at ''The Guardian'' The Observer photojournalists Photographers from London 20th-century British photographers People from Kingston upon Thames 2019 deaths 1927 births British portrait photographers {{UK-photographer-stub