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.

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.

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.

Subsequently enrolling at the London International Film School in 1969, Stuart became involved in underground film-making, winning the 'Sucker's Award' at the first Wet Dream Film Festival in Amsterdam in 1970. After graduating in 1971, Stuart remained underground and worked with Nic Rogue on a Glastonbury shoot. He also directed, amongst others, films on Peter Blake and Robert Altman, a segment of the Dutch film Dreams of Thirteen, and finally Penetration, which explored the European hardcore scene of the early 1970s. Shown at Cannes in 1974 – the first film of its genre – it was retitled French Blue for the American market, where it unexpectedly reached no. 18 in the Variety Top 50, grossing $15,000,000.

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