Age: 87
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
David Montgomery (born 8 February 1937 in Brooklyn, New York) is a photographer known for his portraits of the rich and famous. He studied music at the Juilliard School of Music. He was an assistant to photographer Lester Bookbinder in New York and accompanied him on a working visit to the United Kingdom in the early 1960s and stayed.
Montgomery's photographic subjects have included Bill Clinton, Lucian Freud, Mick Jagger, Jimi Hendrix, Margaret Thatcher, Peter O'Toole and Andy Warhol. His photographs of Andy Warhol have been included in The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA. For his photograph of Hendrix, which is shown in the inside cover of the 1968 album Electric Ladyland, Montgomery started a controlled fire using a can of petrol to photograph flames behind Hendrix.
Montgomery has two daughters from his first marriage. He married his second wife, Martine née King, in 1982 and they have a son and a daughter. He lives with his wife in a five-bedroom Victorian terraced house in Chelsea, London. He collected guitars as a hobby and at one time owned about 20. He has sold most and by 2014 he only had two.