More than 100 signed photographs taken by acclaimed music photographer Gered Mankowitz are to be sold so the 80-year-old and his wife, Julia, can downsize their Cornwall home. Gered Mankowitz has photographed the likes of Kate Bush and Jimi Hendrix (Image: Gardiner Houlgate/PA)Beginning his career in the early 1960s, Mankowitz worked with many of the biggest names in the British music industry. The Julia and Gered Mankowitz Archive Collection comprises 250 lots including more than 100 signed, limited-edition and exhibition prints, artist’s proofs, experimental works and the Hasselblad camera equipment he used. Auctioneer Luke Hobbs (left) with Gered Mankowitz (Image: Gardiner Houlgate/PA)"In many ways, Gered’s work defined the look of the British music industry in its heyday. The Julia and Gered Mankowitz Archive Collection will be auctioned at Gardiner Houlgate in Corsham, Wiltshire, on September 7.