Camera Girl: Britain’s first female national newspaper photographer
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Doreen Spooner was Britain’s first female national newspaper photographer.
Her career spanned more than 50 years, 26 at the Daily Mirror, where she photographed everything from models...
...to the Troubles in Northern Ireland...
...and many stars of the silver screen, including Sophia Loren.
Her exclusive photograph of Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies made the front page of the Daily Mirror during the trial of Stephen Ward at the Old Bailey, part of the Profumo scandal in 1963.
Spooner photographed many figures from the world of music, including Oscar-winning composer Leonard Bernstein.
American singer-songwriter Debbie Harry, lead singer of the group Blondie.
Spandau Ballet when they were recording their album True, in the Bahamas in 1982.
This image was from a photo shoot with Marianne Faithfull, at her London flat in 1964.
Spooner also shot fashion stories, here Yves St Laurent is seen in the newly opened Rive Gauche store in New Bond Street in 1969.
Even when unwell, 17-year-old Twiggy was a gift to the camera.
Here, actress Diana Rigg, then star of The Avengers, poses for Spooner in 1964. These pictures are taken from Camera Girl: The inspiring life story of Fleet Street’s first female press photographer by Doreen Spooner with Alan Clark, published by Mirror Books.