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State Library of New South Wales
Self Portrait – Sydney – 1992

Self Portrait – Sydney – 1992

Silver gelatin photographic print
PXD 653 / 22

The very modest Lewis Morley (b. 1925) was one of the most significant photographers working in London in the swinging sixties — capturing icons of the entertainment, artistic and fashion worlds such as Jean Shrimpton, Salvador Dali, Twiggy, Michael Caine, Barry Humphries, Charlotte Rampling, Joe Orton, Susannah York, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. Today he is best remembered for his portrait of a nude Christine Keeler straddling a copy of an Arne Jacobsen ‘Ant’ chair. Lewis Morley died without fanfare on Tuesday 3 September 2013.

At home

Lewis took this self-portrait in his darkroom under his Leichhardt home when he was in his late 60s. This photograph features the enlarger that Lewis would have used to create this print.