Item #CL195-130 David Frost, London [Sitting In The Keeler Chair]. Lewis Morley, 1925–2013 British/Australian.
David Frost, London [Sitting In The Keeler Chair]
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David Frost, London [Sitting In The Keeler Chair]

1963/later printing. Silver gelatin photograph, photographer’s blindstamp on image lower right, signed in ink in lower margin, 35.3 x 26.4cm. Framed.

Variant image held in NPG (UK) and illustrated in Lewis Morley: I to eye, 2011, p160.

In 1963 Lewis Morley took one of the world’s most famous photographs of an almost nude Christine Keeler astride a copy of an Arne Jacobsen chair at the height of the Profumo scandal. “Since its first appearance, without a credit, in the Sunday Mirror in June 1963,…[the Keeler photograph] has come to embody the sexual permissiveness and freedom of the 1960s and has been one of the world’s most re-enacted images. Morley himself restaged it with…[the encouragement of the sitters] such as David Frost, Edina Ronay, Joe Orton and Dame Edna Everage.”

David Frost was “an English television host, media personality, journalist, comedian, and writer [who] became known for his television interviews with senior political figures, among them the Nixon Interviews with former US President Richard Nixon in 1977.” Ref: The Guardian, 13.9.2013; Wiki.

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Item #CL195-130

Price (AUD): $5,500.00  other currencies

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