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How I came to take their photograph by Antony Barrington Brown Following three years' Army service in Egypt I went up to Cambridge in 1948 to read chemistry. I did not do well academically, but perhaps the main reason why I only achieved a third class degree was because I spent most of my time as a photographer for the student newspaper, Varsity. This was a very professional weekly on which many now noted journalists and politicians cut their teeth. During my time as picture editor a certain Antony Armstrong-Jones asked to be taken on, but after a few weeks I fired him as unreliable. He later became the world-famous photographer Lord Snowdon, and married Princess Margaret. In 1951 I went to work for Esso as an analytical chemist, which I much enjoyed, but soon found that those who did chemistry gained no promotion, while those who gained promotion, did no chemistry. So I quit and returned to Cambridge to set up as a photographer. My main line was portraiture, especially of dons in their 'natural habitat', and I was commissioned by colleges to portray all their Fellows. I also did photo-journalism and became 'stringer' for all the national press as well as the BBC and Movietone News.
Antony Barrington Brown Antony Barrington Brown in 1956, during an Oxford and Cambridge universities overland expedition to the Far East, in which he was the expedition stills and film photographer. An undergraduate friend of mine aspiring to be a journalist sought out stories on his own account. One day he gave me a tip-off that someone at the Cavendish Laboratory had made an important discovery, so could I take a picture to go with his story which he wanted to offer to Time magazine? So it was that I set off on my bicycle towing a two-wheeled trolley which carried my tripod and lights. I dragged the trolley up several flights of stairs and knocked at the door of one of dozens of similar rooms where research students worked. I was affably greeted by a couple of chaps lounging at a desk by the window, drinking coffee. "What's all this about?" I asked. With an airy wave of the hand one of them, Crick I think, said "we've got this model" indicating an array of retort stands holding thin brass rods and balls. Although supposedly a chemist myself it meant absolutely nothing to me and fortunately they did not expose my ignorance by attempting to explain it in terms I might just have comprehended. Anyway, I had only come to get a picture so I set up my lights and camera and said "you'd better stand by it and look portentous" which they lamentably failed to do, treating my efforts as a bit of a joke. I took four frames of them with the model and then three or four back with their coffee. My 'snaps' came out well enough and my friend fired them with his story off to Time, but they never used it and sent me half a guinea (52p) for my pains. Several historians have spent a lot of effort trying to establish when the pictures were first published, but I have never known. Antony Barrington Brown was born in 1927. He was a freelance photographer in Cambridge from 1951 to 1958, and then worked for Dexion Ltd, where he invented the Speedframe construction system. In 1967 he moved to Wiltshire, and started a company that designed and manufactured school and industrial furniture.
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