A landmark portrait collection from one of Britain's most celebrated photographers, Sittings 1979–1983 gathers Snowdon's studio portraits of the era's most distinguished figures in politics, film, literature, and the arts. Shot in his intimate 10x14 studio, the images include Alec Guinness, Ingrid Bergman, Laurence Olivier, Rudolf Nureyev, Meryl Streep, Princess Diana, and Margaret Thatcher, among many others. Many of the photographs — some previously published in Vogue, Life, and the Sunday Times — appear here together for the first time, with an introduction by John Mortimer. Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1983)