[John Vickers, theatre photographer.] Duplicated Typed set of terms for ‘THEATRE PHOTOGRAPHY’, on his letterhead.

From the Macqueen-Pope papers. (See his entry in the Oxford DNB.) A nice piece of theatre and photographic ephemera. Vickers has five items in the National Portrait Gallery, which provides the following information: ‘John Vickers began his career by working as assistant to photographer Angus McBean in the 1930s. From 1939 until the time of his death, he ran his own studio. After the war he became well known as a theatre photographer working for theatres including the Old Vic. He photographed over 1,000 productions and his portraits of actors, writers and musicians gained him a high reputation. For the last twenty years of his career he worked mainly on advertising and commercial photography.’ (Macqueen-Pope would have come into contact with Vickers through his work as Drury Lane press agent, and he and his daughter were photographed by McBean.) 1p, 4to. Modern-looking letterhead, printed in black punctuated with red stars. Somewhat creased, and previously folded into a packet. Subheadings on ‘Photographs taken on stage’ (with charge for Press and Display prints and ‘Glossy Press Prints’, ‘Studio Portraits’ and ‘COPYRIGHT’. First paragraph reads: ‘In order to avoid dramatic increases in the Fees for Theatre Photography, slight changes in the method of submitting the results have been adopted. Substitution of chargeable Press Prints in place of rough proofs, gives the Press Representative a wider choice of pictures, especially useful where “exclusive” papers requiring one print only have to be considered.’