Howell Conant

Today I came across a series of stunning photos

of Grace Kelly by legendary photographer

Howell T Conant Sr, via a interesting blog called

* Starbucks and Jane Austen *

Howell who died in March 1999 (aged 83),

worked as a fashion photographer for a number

 of magazines and is perhaps best known for

his 1955 cove rshot of Grace for 'Photoplay'.

Howell and Grace became good friends and

she rated him her favorite photographer and

allowed him to shoot intimate portraits of her

and her family - even after she married into Royalty.

You can really see the trusting friendship and

close relationship between the two in most

of the photographs and I get a sense of the

'real' girl behind the iconic image that Grace

had to carry as she became Princess of Monaco.

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xCharlotta

P.S. Also check Howell's wonderful photographs
of Audrey Hepburn and his book documenting
the legendary 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'.

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