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...David Lean and Lord Snowdon take aim at A Passage to India
...these were no tourists out for holiday views of the East. One was Sir David Lean, director of Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, shooting his first film in 14 years, an adaptation of E.M. Forster's A Pas sage to India. A few yards away was Lord Snowdon, the photographer who expelled posture and plumage from celebrity portraits, arching for shots of the cast and crew...
Amid a tumble of elephants, microphones and turbaned extras, Lean channeled the action into a flowing river of film, while Snowdon fished for moments of the witty and sublime...
...like to direct my subjects and tell them exactly what to do," says Antony Armstrong-Jones, the Earl of Snowdon, in his introduction to Sittings 1979-1983 (Harper & Row; 144 pages; $20). That would account for the cool air of calculated informality that distinguishes these photographs, mostly of figures in the arts and public life of Britain. But Snowdon adds: "Often when people are told exactly what to do they become more themselves than they know." And that would explain the glint of pawky self-dramatization in many of the poses: Prince Charles sporting his riding silks with 18th century...
According to Dempster, Margaret's life thereafter was marked with irony and marred by men. Antony Armstrong-Jones appears as the villainous Earl of Snowdon, vulpine photographer and "failed architect." Though the couple's early years are, in Dempster's terse account, full of "sex, sex, sex," the earl is all too soon observed spending more time in boudoirs than in darkrooms. When the lonely princess and mother of two takes up with an eligible aristocrat, Roddy Llewellyn, the earl appears on television. There, playing the crocodile cuckold, he tearfully begs indulgence for Princess Margaret...