Here’s a refreshing start to 2025 – a new image upload by Mary Evans Picture Library who have been researching and scanning the image archive of fashion and editorial photographer Nancy Sandys Walker (1910-1988).
Photo Archive notes:
• 800 images available to license.
• Job books give additional shoot details.
• Nancy Sandys Walker studied art before taking up photography, embarking on her career at the Dover Street studio of the great Norman Parkinson and becoming his assistant prior to the Second World War. She watched and learned and when Parkinson moved from British Harper’s Bazaar to Vogue, was encouraged by the fashion and advertising photographer, Shaw Wildman, to branch out on her own. From the 1940s, she became a regular favourite for fashion shoots at Harper’s Bazaar, as well as other magazines including Vanity Fair, Woman’s Own and Picture Post. She also took pictures for a roll call of well-known brands such as Woollands, Harrods, Carlsberg lager, Silhouette lingerie, Harvey Nichols and Jaeger. Creative collaboration emerged in her marriage to designer Peter Hatch and the pair often worked together on projects with Nancy photographing Peter’s designs.
This fantastic set of new images has been scanned from a mixture of prints and negatives. Job books found in the archive give additional value to this collection with information on clients, model names, dates and shoot location. Of particular note are the images from scanned negatives dating back to 1964-1966 featuring models of the moment, Celia Hammond, Joanna Lumley and Pattie Boyd, the majority of which are being seen for the first time in sixty years.