Happy Mother's Day! Portraits of celebrity mums and daughters including Jo Wood, Liza Minnelli and Twiggy in new exhibition by photographer Terry O'Neill

• London exhibition pays tribute to Mother's Day with iconic celebrity photos
• Collection taken from archives of iconic British photographer Terry O'Neill
• Famous daughters include Holly Willoughby, Alesha Dixon and Leah Wood

By AMY LEWIS FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 12:25, 15 March 2015 | UPDATED: 13:55, 15 March 2015

British photographer Terry O'Neill has unveiled a new exhibition of celebrity mothers and daughters, including Jo Wood, Twiggy and Judy Garland, just in time for Mother's Day.

The new collection, Mum: A Snapshot, is led by Jo Wood and daughter Leah, who appear in the exhibition twice thanks to a 1981 shot of the pair on tour with Ronnie Wood and the Rolling Stones.

Capturing the special bond between mother and daughter, the show has been created in homage to the photographer's own late mother, and is free to the public this weekend, at London's White Space gallery.

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'I can tell her anything, just about anything, she's always there for me and I love her,' says Leah Wood of mother Jo, pictured here on tour with Ronnie Wood and the Rolling Stones in 1981

Leah and Jo Wood pose for the new Terry O'Neill exhibition  

'I actually did it in homage to my mother who I never had a chance to thank, because she died when I was young,'  Terry O'Neill told This Morning. 

'I never had a chance to thank her, and as you grow older of course you appreciate your mother more.'

He added: 'So I got together this exhibition as a tribute to Mother’s Day.'

Terry has been photographing celebrities for the last 50 years and the new show features both old and new pictures.  

Liza Minnelli posed with mum Judy Garland for this touching photograph in 1963, though Terry O'Neill has revealed that wasn't expecting to discover the superstar mother and daughter together when he called around to take a quick tabloid snap of the then 17-year-old Liza

A rare gem among the collection, which was created in association with online gift specialist Not On The High Street, is a touching photograph of Liza Minnelli pictured with her mother Judy Garland, in 1963.

Terry said: 'That was when I was 20 years old, I worked on the Daily Sketch, which was a tabloid paper at the time, and I got sent round to photograph Liza Minnelli.

'I go round to this mews house in Belgravia, door opens and it's Judy Garland! 

'We got on well, and she made dinner for me and her daughter too.' 

British supermodel Twiggy poses with her daughter Carly Lawson

Twiggy and lookalike daughter Carly pose on the red carpet

Actress Emilia Fox and her mother Joanna together pose in 2008 (pictured right), next to This Morning TV presenter Holly Willoughby and mother Lynn, which was taken in 2009 (pictured left)

Other subjects in the heart warming collection include Emilia Fox and mother Joanna, Holly Willoughby and her mother Lynn, as well as British icon Twiggy and daughter Carly Lawson. 

Several of the shots which feature in O'Neill's exhibition were originally intended as gifts for the husbands of the women pictured.

The 1980 shot of actress Nanette Newman, photographed with her daughters Sarah Standing and TV presenter Emma Forbes, was blown up by the photographer as a surprise present for the late Bryan Forbes, director of films including The Stepford Wives. 

This shot of British actress Nanette Newman (right) with daughters Emma Forbes (top left) and Sarah Standing (bottom left) was taken in 1980, and blown up as a surprise gift for father and husband, British director Bryan Forbes

Actress Britt Eckland was still in a London hospital after giving birth to daughter Victoria when this photograph was taken in 1965, as a gift for her husband, British actor Peter Sellers

Swedish actress Britt Eckland also commissioned O'Neill to take a picture of herself with newborn baby Victoria in 1965, as a surprise gift for her husband Peter Sellers.

The photographer revealed that the actress was still in a London hospital after giving birth, but looked radiant nonetheless.

Britain's Got Talent judge Alesha Dixon also appears in the exhibition, along with Gloria Hunniford and her late daughter Caron Keating, plus models Jodie and Jemma Kidd with mother Wendy.

Model daughters: Wendy Kidd poses for a loving shot with her supermodel daughters Jemma (pictured on the left) and Jodie Kidd (pictured on the right) in 2009

Britain's Got Talent judge Alesha Dixon with her mother Beverley in 2009. Terry O'Neill's exhibition Mum: A Snapshot is open to the public this weekend, at London's White Space Gallery

TV queen Gloria Hunniford is pictured with her late daughter Caron Keating, who was also a television presenter

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Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Audrey Hepburn and Joan Collins among the stars on show in new Terry O'Neill retrospective

Life among the legends: Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Audrey Hepburn and Joan Collins among the stars on show in new Terry O'Neill retrospective

• Faye Dunaway, Brigitte Bardot and Rod Stewart also appear
• O'Neill among the most famous photographers of the 1960s
• Contemporary David Bailey also has a retrospective this year

By RUTH STYLES

PUBLISHED: 13:55, 14 January 2014 | UPDATED: 17:14, 14 January 2014

From a rare photo of Audrey Hepburn relaxing in the pool to a snap of Rod Stewart cuddling up to a mare and foal, Terry O'Neill's work includes some of the most intimate celebrity portraits ever taken.

Now the British photographer's work is the subject of a new retrospective which charts his 50-year career on the frontline of fame.

Among the stars to appear in the photographs on display at the Little Black Gallery in Chelsea are Frank Sinatra, O'Neill's former wife Faye Dunaway and Brigitte Bardot.

Stunning: This unusually intimate portrait of Audrey Hepburn relaxing in the pool was taken in 1967

Backstage: Elizabeth Taylor photographed putting her make-up on in her dressing room in 1977

Others featured in the exhibition include Elizabeth Taylor, David Bowie, Joan Collins and iconic 60s model, Jean Shrimpton.

So how did Terry O'Neill, a man whose career began, rather humbly, as a member of the photographic unit at London's Heathrow Airport, become one of the UK's most famous post-war photographers?

Rather wonderfully, it all began with a chance encounter with the then Home Secretary, Rab Butler, who O'Neill snapped as he was nodding off while waiting for a flight.

The photo hit the headlines and O' Neill moved to Fleet Street, where as a staff photographer for the now defunct Daily Sketch, he photographed everyone from Laurence Olivier to the Rolling Stones.

Along with contemporaries, David Bailey, who also has a retrospective this year, Terence Donovan and Brian Duffy, O'Neill had, by the mid-1960s, become one of the UK's most sought-after photographers.

Iconic: Joan Collins photographed at home in the 1970s and an unusual 1975 portrait of David Bowie

Glamorous: Faye Dunaway pictured at the Beverley Hills Hotel, the morning after winning the Oscar for Network

Intimate: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in 1971 (left) and Tony Curtis on the set of The Boston Strangler

The Queen, Winston Churchill and The Beatles all featured in his work, but it was in Hollywood that he cemented his reputation for portraits that showed the subject in an unexpectedly intimate light.

'I was suddenly being invited onto the film sets of the most beautiful women in the world, from Bardot to Elizabeth Taylor,' he remembers in a memoir penned for his website.

'Rock bands and musicians let me go backstage – in the days when photographers weren’t allowed.

'One minute I’d be on the set of a Bond movie, the next I’d be at a Hollywood studio hanging out with the biggest stars in the world.'

He would later go on to marry one of his subjects, Bonnie and Clyde star Faye Dunaway, at the time one of the most famous women in the world.

Four-legged friends: Rod Stewart gets up close and personal with a mare and foal in Old Windsor in 1971

Close-up: Iconic model Jean Shrimpton photographed with actor Terence Stamp in 1963

Controversial: A 1968 portrait taken for Esquire magazine featuring actress Raquel Welch tied to a cross

Both muse and model, O'Neill's portraits of Dunaway are among his most iconic, with some, including a wonderful shot of her relaxing poolside after winning the Oscar for Network in 1977, featured in the new retrospective.

Speaking about O'Neill and his impact on 20th century photography, Tamara Beckwith, co-founder of The Little Black Gallery and a long-standing friend of the photographer, said:

'It goes without saying that Terry is one of the greatest photographers we have ever produced on these shores.

'It is only fitting that we should celebrate his achievement with an exhibition of his most iconic images.'

The Best of Terry O'Neill opens today at The Little Black Gallery in Chelsea and runs until the 1st March. See thelittleblackgallery.com for more information.

Relaxed: A quirky portrait of British actors Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in Los Angeles in 1979

Famous: This 1971 image of Brigitte Bardot by Terry O'Neill is one of the most famous ever taken

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