Nigel Finch and Walter Zerlin Jnr recreating the Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson pose from the 1976 movie ‘A Star is Born’. Finch (1949-1995) was a film director and filmmaker influential in the growth of British gay cinema. His films included ‘The Lost Language of Cranes’ and ‘Stonewall’. Walter Zerlin Jr (aka Robert Conway) (1949-2001) was a barrister, playwright and actor who regularly used drag in his stage performances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Manning Photographers was founded in the late 1940s by James Manning, who was later joined by his son Frank. The studio operated from 1952 onwards in Windmill Row, Kennington and continued until 2022. Their extensive photographic archive of approximately 500,000 images was gifted to Lambeth Archives by Frank & Sandra Manning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Nigel Finch and Walter Zerlin Jnr recreating the Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson pose from the 1976 movie ‘A Star is Born’. Finch (1949-1995) was a film director and filmmaker influential in the growth of British gay cinema. His films included ‘The Lost Language of Cranes’ and ‘Stonewall’. Walter Zerlin Jr (aka Robert Conway) (1949-2001) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,394,749,734,6,323],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1976-to-date","category-actors","category-films-filmmakers","category-manning-photographers","category-photograph","category-queer"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n