Falcon Stuart

Falcon Stuart (27 March 1941 – 27 February 2002) was a British photographer, retailer, filmmaker, and music producer associated with X-Ray Spex, Adam and the Ants, and Danielle Dax amongst others.

Personal life

Born in Oxford in 1941, Stuart was the son of the sculptor Oscar Nemon. He married Alice Hiller in 1982, while living in London, and they had two sons. Falcon Stuart died in 2002.

Early career

Having been influenced in his teenage years by American rock and roll 45s and London jazz clubs, Stuart moved rapidly from working for society photographer Tom Hustler, to having his own Pimlico studio. Stuart's fashion shots were featured in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and the national press, and exhibited at the Hampstead and Kingsway Galleries. He also drove a customised Mini – with a tent on the roof – round the Mediterranean, on largely unmade roads, to photograph BP's oil installations.

During the 1960s, Stuart opened The Bistrotheque, a bistro with a resident DJ with partners in Victoria Street in 1965, while setting up Splash Posters, which produced screen-printed posters, with another business partner. The all white Jumpahead boutique followed in 1967, where printed jersey and paper clothes could be seen through a seven-inch viewing slit cut in the blanked out window.