LEWIS MORLEY (1925-2013)

Matte silver gelatin print; signed, titled, dated, and editioned 1/10 by the photographer in gold ink

In period silver gilt frame

57.0 × 67.0 cm

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Lewis Morley's photograph of Christine Keeler sitting naked the wrong way round on an Arne Jacobsen chair has become one of the defining images of the 1960s. A combination of pin-up and icon, suggestive both of sexual liberation and at the same time of the penalties of sexual exploitation, it occupies a morally ambiguous universe. It was taken in May 1963, when Christine Keeler came to Lewis Morley's studio over the Establishment Club in Greek Street to be photographed to promote a film on the Profumo Affair.

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