Eamonn McCabe

Eamonn McCabe (born 1948) is a British photographer. He began as a sports photographer and later worked in editorial portrait photography. Many of his portraits are held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.[1]

Life and work

He began his career as a sports photographer, winning Sports Photographer of the Year four times between 1978 and 1984. McCabe then turned his attention to general editorial portraiture for The Observer and The Guardian. He made photographic contributions to the weekly Guardian Profile.[1][2]

His work encompasses a variety of subjects and topics, but he has largely concentrated on portraits of those in the arts. These include actors, writers, poets, artists, and musicians. McCabe also ventured into sports photography, capturing figures in action. It was as a sports photographer that he was attending the 1985 European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus, but he ended up being a news photographer as he found himself taking the famous but tragic images of the Heysel Stadium disaster.[3][4]

McCabe worked as the picture editor for Decade, Phaidon's photographic review of the first ten years of the new Millennium.[5]

He is Visiting Senior Fellow in Photography at the University of Suffolk, holds an Honorary Doctorate of the University of East Anglia and Staffordshire University, and is an Honorary Professor at Thames Valley University.[6]

Publications
  • Eamonn McCabe: Sports Photographer. London: Aurum, 1982. Compiled by Geoffrey Nicholson. ISBN 978-0906053393. With a foreword by Hugh McIlvanney.
  • The Pope in Britain: the Official Record. London: Bodley Head, 1982. ISBN 9780370309255. With forewords by Basil Hume and Gordon Gray.
  • Eamonn McCabe: Photographer. London: Kingswood, 1987. ISBN 9780434981106. With text by Simon Barnes and a foreword by Edward Lucie-Smith.
  • The Making of Great Photographs: approaches and techniques of the masters. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 2005; 2008.
  • Artists and their Studios. Battle: Angela Patchell, 2008. Photographs by McCabe and text by Michael McNay. ISBN 9781906245061.
  • Decade. Phaidon, 2010. Edited by McCabe. ISBN 978-0714857688. With text by Terence McNamee.
  • From Above: The Story of Aerial Photography. Laurence King, 2019. By McCabe and Gemma Padley. ISBN 978-1786275219.

Collections

McCabe's work is held in the following permanent collection:

References
  1. "Eamonn McCabe: (1948-), Photographer". National Portrait Gallery.
  2. McCabe, Eamonn (4 March 2017). "From art to selfies – my lifelong affair with photography". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  3. "BBC Arts - Photography - How photographing Heysel football disaster changed my life". BBC. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  4. "The Heysel Stadium disaster remembered 30 years on". Sky Sports. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  5. "Eamonn McCabe: a career in photographs - Photography - Agenda - Phaidon". 1 March 2012. Archived from the original on 1 March 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
  6. "Dr Eamonn McCabe". uos.ac.uk. 4 July 2016.
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