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Online, Oct 29, 2007

LOT 14

United Kingdom
Tilda Swinton photographed by Mary McCartney

Tilda Swinton, Actress
A visually striking and enigmatic actress, Tilda Swinton plays the White Witch in the first ?Chronicles of Narnia?, the highly successful Walt Disney movie released in December 2005. Born into an aristocratic Scottish military family, she was educated in an English boarding school that also housed a cer tain Lady Diana Spencer. She studied at Cambridge University, but subsequently switched to theatre and became a student of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Endowed with a taste for the unique and the bizarre, she found some genuinely interesting gender-bending roles coming her way. She won the Venise Film Festival award for ?Edward II? (1991), enjoyed a major triumph as the title character in ?Orlando? (1993) and played recently in ?Broken Flowers? by Jim Jarmusch in 2005. She has also spent two years in South Africa and Kenya as a voluntary worker in children?s schools.

Mary McCartney, Photographer
As the eldest child of Paul and Linda McCartney, Mary McCartney?s interest in photography inevitably began during her childhood, when her mother, a photographer, never went anywhere without her camera on her shoulder. Mary later started taking photographs professionally, specialising in portrait and fashion photography. Portrait subjects have spanned musicians from Blondie to Wyclef, artists from Peter Blake to Sam Taylor Wood and actors/ actresses such as Ralph Fiennes, Jude Law and Helen Mirren. Her fashion stories have been published in the New York Time Magazine, Harpers, V Magazine and Russian Vogue. Recent commissions include shooting for the Gucci Group, the Stella McCartney advertising campaigns and Adidas. Mary McCartney had her first solo exhibition in October 2004 entitled ?Off Pointe?, a series of portraits of the Royal Opera House Ballet Corps out of hours. She is also working on a personal collection of images under the title ?Keep Faith?, exploring and documenting the legions of dedicated fans, from a variety of musical currents, that keep music alive.

The lot consists of 3 photographs and a TAG Heuer ladies? watch issued in a limited numbered edition, signed by Uma Thurman and by UNIFEM.