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Curating Marilyn Monroe: Interviews with the British Film Institute and the National Portrait Gallery
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Man Ray portraits
\"The artist May Ray (1890-1976) initially taught himself photography in order to reproduce his own works of art, but it became one of his preferred mediums. As a contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements in Paris during the 1920s, Man Ray was perfectly placed to make defining images of his avant-garde contemporaries, including Jean Cocteau, Peggy Guggenheim, and Gertrude Stein. Man Ray also photographed his friends and lovers, among them Kiki de Montparnasse (Alice Prin), Lee Miller, who helped him discover the solarization printing process, and Ady Fidelin. Man Ray continued to take portrait photographs throughout his career, including little-known images from 1940s Hollywood, and of stars such as Ava Gardner and Catherine Deneuve taken during the 1950s and 1960s. An essential reference on Man Ray's life and work, this book includes an introduction by Terence Pepper and essay by Marina Warner exploring the artist's creativity and appetite for innovation and experimentation. Complete with first-hand testimonies from the artist's sitters and over 200 beautifully reproduced images, this handsome volume provides a survey of the finest portraits from one of the most inventive photographic artists of the 20th century.\"--Publisher's website.
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Obituaries: Lewis Morley
Obituary for Lewis Morley (1925-2013), the photographer of the famous and beautiful whose work came to embody the 1960s. (Quotes from original text)
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Obituary: Lewis Morley: Photographer of the famous and beautiful whose work came to embody the 1960s
The retrospective came about through a correspondence he and I began in 1983. [Lewis Frederick Morley] made regular donations of prints until I was able to fly to Australia to select a show from studying more than 10,000 negatives with him in the attic of his home in Sydney. In the year of the retrospective, the film Scandal was released, with Joanne Whalley playing [Christine Keeler] and copying the pose from Morley's portrait for the poster. This year, 50 years on from the Profumo affair - in which John Profumo, secretary of state for war, resigned after an affair with Keeler - Morley's only surviving vintage print of the photograph has been displayed at the National Portrait Gallery, with Gerald Scarfe's caricature of Harold Macmillan in another Keeler pose, in the Scandal 63 display. The chair now has a new home in the Victoria and Albert Museum's design collection. The Keeler photograph was taken in 1963 and had been intended to promote a film cashing in on the Profumo affair set up by Nicholas Luard and others, which Morley believed was never made. The Scandal 63 display shows its use in another film, made in Denmark, in which Keeler appears in a prologue and Yvonne Buckingham plays her part, with John Drew Barrymore as Stephen Ward. The film's posters use Morley's image with Buckingham's face superimposed. Later, Homer Simpson and the Spice Girls also re-enacted the pose. A 1960 Tatler commission, The Day of the Swot at Cambridge, included a photograph of William Donaldson, which led to Morley's de facto role as photographer of the satire boom and Private Eye's early days, especially when he moved his studio to the building in which Peter Cook ran the Establishment club in Soho. Donaldson produced Beyond the Fringe, which introduced Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller to the West End and Broadway. Morley's classic photograph of the four, posed against builders' screens, was the cover for the revue's bestselling album and became the prototype of a pop group's album cover - albeit that they were satirists.
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Obituary: Lady Victoria Wemyss
Victoria Alexandrina Violet (\"Vera\") Cavendish-Bentinck, courtier: born 27 February 1890; Extra Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) 1937-94; CVO 1953; married 1918 Capt Michael Wemyss of Wemyss (died 1982; two sons); died Wemyss, Fife 8 May 1994. Lady [Victoria Wemyss] (nee Cavendish-Bentinck) was herself an intimate of the royal circle: her father, the sixth Duke of Portland, was Master of the Horse to Queen Victoria and her mother, the Duchess, later Mistress of the Robes to Queen Alexandra. Lady Victoria, probably the last surviving godchild of Queen Victoria, was for 57 years an Extra Woman of the Bedchamber to her cousin Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother).
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