In pictures: Vintage Stones

First Session at Ormond Yard, Caged Sequence, Early 1965

Photographer Gered Mankowitz’s private archive of more than 1,000 previously unseen prints of the Rolling Stones is on show in London for the first time. From left to right, Bill Wyman, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, and Charlie Watts.

Charlie Watts and Mick Jagger at Airport, Start of Autumn US Tour, October 1965

The collection of historic prints includes pictures of the band on their first US tour in 1965, group shots and profile portraits.

Keith “Billy the Kid” Richards on Overnight Camp-out, Phoenix Arizona, December 1965

The entire collection is up for sale and valued at £300,000.

Keith Richards at RCA Studios Recording Aftermath album, Hollywood, December 1965

Mankowitz rose to fame as a showbiz photographer in the early 1960s and opened his first studio in Mason’s Yard, Mayfair.

Mick Jagger at new Harley House apartment, Marylebone, 1966

The Stones' manager Andrew Loog Oldham thought Mankowitz, aged 17, could bring some raw energy to the band's publicity photographs. He went on to work with many major artists including Jimi Hendrix, Elton John, Kate Bush and the Eurythmics.

The Rolling Stones Early Morning Album Cover Shoot for Between the Buttons, Primrose Hill, London November 1966

Gered Mankowitz: Vintage Stones. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Rolling Stones runs at Atlas Gallery, in London from 5 December until 31 January 2014.