“Would anyone expect Sir Elton John and David Furnish’s photo collection to be anything less than a reflection of themselves and what the public knows about them: creative, cheeky, thrilling, dramatic, stylish, sexual and political? On their first date, a Herb Ritts monograph book became a conversation connecting the two of them together. “I had the coffee table book of his photographs. Elton actually had some of the photographs,” said Furnish in a video about their shared love of photography.

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At the Victoria and Albert Museum in London from now until January 5, 2025, over 300 prints from roughly 140 photographers are featured in “Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection.” For the uninitiated, John and Furnish have been amassing a mammoth photo archive for thirty years now: their entire library consists of approximately 7,000 prints.

In terms of sheer size, “Fragile Beauty” is the largest temporary exhibition of photos ever mounted at the V&A. The images date back from the 1950s to the present, and it’s a veritable who’s who of........

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