Philip Townsend took the first professional photographs of the Rolling Stones. He worked as a photographer from 1960 until 1969, and his eclectic collection of images caught the essence of the swinging 60s, when the upper classes mixed with an emerging new elite of actors, musicians and designers. Known as “Mr Sixties”, he photographed mainly in black and white, and with a twist of eccentricity. His subjects included Frankie Howerd on a skateboard, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, members of the aristocracy, police officers on a goodwill mission to Monte Carlo, the landmark Biba shop in Kensington, scenes of Carnaby Street, and models such as Linda Keith and Rory Davis.