Michael Macintyre's Camera Bags A Large collection of Domke Bags

All sizes and colours, many well worn from a long career's distinguished travel.

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Michael Macintyre [Please note small c and small i!]

for Photographica - Chiswick Auctions

This sale presents camera equipment from the Estate of Michael Macintyre (1939–2025), a celebrated BBC television producer and director whose career reflected a lifelong commitment to the arts and to visual storytelling.

Macintyre joined the BBC in the early 1960s as a trainee television engineer and went on to produce and direct numerous music and arts programmes through to the 1990s. These included films on the photography of Richard Avedon and André Kertész, a programme on Pop Art in the United States featuring Andy Warhol, and documentaries exploring the work of Antonin Artaud, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Michael Tippett. His documentaries for Arena and Omnibus included a profile of Yukio Mishima and a film on the music of Islam with Sir David Attenborough.

His collaboration with Attenborough continued with the series’ The Tribal Eye (1975) and Spirit of Asia (1980). He produced and directed two more major series - The Shogun Inheritance (1981) and The New Pacific (1985). Filmed across Asia and the Pacific, these productions were accompanied by bestselling books featuring Macintyre’s own photographs. In 1991 he became a freelance director, cameraman and editor, making many further documentaries including In Search of the White Rajahs in Borneo with Joanna Lumley and The Kirov Ballet on tour in Japan.

Photography remained central to his life. The cameras and equipment offered here formed part of the working tools of a filmmaker and photographer dedicated to observing and recording the world around him. They are offered by his partner and their daughter with the hope that they will continue to be used and appreciated by others who share his passion for photography.