Lewis Frederick Morley OAM (16 June 1925 – 3 September 2013) was a photographer.
Table of Contents
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Out of Weakness-- Strength: Miracles in the Life of a Missionary
- 1.2 Now It Can Be Told
- 1.3 The Trade
- 1.4 50 Feminist Classics in One Volume
- 1.5 Mozart Of The Banjo: Joe Morley Project
- 1.6 River of No Return
- 1.7 Way... Way Out
- 1.8 The True Women Influencers of the Past: The Inspiring Heroines in Real Life and Fiction
- 1.9 You Wouldn’t Want to Explore with Lewis and Clark! (You Wouldn't Want to…: Adventurers and Explorers)
- 1.10 KTRIO Whistle Coach Whistles with Lanyard, Loud Metal Emergency Sports Whistle Soccer Football Whistles for Referee, Coaches, Teacher, Kids, 3 Pack Silver
Biography
Morley was born in Hong Kong to English and Chinese parents and interned in Stanley Internment Camp during the Japanese goings-on of Hong Kong together with 1941 and 1945, when he was released and emigrated to the United Kingdom afterward his family. He studied at Twickenham Art School for three years, and spent epoch as a painter in Paris in the 1950s.
Perhaps best known for his photographs of Christine Keeler and Joe Orton, Morley began his career subsequently assignments for magazines such as Tatler. He was after that a booming theatre photographer for on pinnacle of 100 West End productions. His promotion photographs for the Beyond The Fringe revue (1961) included a breakdown of the cast Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller which was used for the best selling photograph album Cover of the show.
Morley emigrated to Australia in 1971 bearing in mind his wife Patricia and son Lewis, where he lived in the inner west of Sydney. He did studio and commercial play photographing architecture and food in magazines such as Belle, and worked following interior designers and stylists such as Babette Hayes, and Charmaine Solomon until his retirement in 1987. In 1989 he collaborated past photographs curator Terence Pepper in staging his first museum retrospective at London’s National Portrait Gallery and in the look of donated anything the images printed for the exhibition as portion of a larger archive of his work. His first autobiography Black and White Lies was published in 1992.
In the mid 1990s, Morley ventured into the gallery concern when he opened The Lewis Morley Photographers Showcase. Embracing the good tradition of photographic salons, the gallery presented the feign of a variety of local photographers from a range of genres.[citation needed]
In 1999, Lewis Morley appeared in the Contemporary Australian Photographers series. It was followed in 2003 behind the pardon of a film just about his excitement and an exhibition Myself and Eye at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.
In 2006, an extensive exhibition showcasing 50 years of Lewis Morley appear in was displayed at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Titled Lewis Morley: 50 Years of Photography, the exhibition included 150 of his works covering fashion, theatre, and reportage, many of which had never been seen before.
Morley died in September 2013 aged 88. His archive was in imitation of donated to the National Media Museum in Bradford, England.
Last update 2021-08-06