Lewis Frederick Morley 1925 - 2013

occupation:
Photographer
Nationality:
Australian
born in:
Hong Kong, China

Photographer best known for documenting society and celebrity culture in the 1960s for magazines such as Tatler, Go!, and She.

Born in Hong Kong to an English father and Chinese mother, Morley was interned by Japanese from 1941 to 1945 before emigrating to England at the end of the war. He studied art in Paris from 1952, where he took up photography. Morley worked for Taltler magazine and theRoyal Court theatre in the late 1950s and started the Lewis Morley Studios at the Establishment Club in London in 1961. He emigrated to Australia in 1971, where he worked on studio and commercial photography before retiring in 1987.

Morley is best known for an iconic portrait of Christine Keeler, as well as other portraits of celebrities such as Joe Orton, Albert Finney, Cecil Beaton, and Tom Jones.

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Photograph of Marcel Marceau taken by Lewis Morley in Paris, 1967.

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