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Horace Roye was one of the great figure photographers. He consistantly
made gorgeous photographs. He was a contemporary of
John Everard.
Both had similar styles but Horace Roye's style was a bit more fluid
than John Everard's. He led a very interesting and varied life up until
the time he was murdered at the age of 96 in 2002! The second model
grouping features a figure model named Desiree. Very beautiful that
Desiree!
Horace Roye - London Times, June 18, 2002
Flamboyant photographer famous for his s and pictures of starlets -
and for waterskiing into old age Horace Roye was one of the 20th
centurys great pioneering photographers, whose familiarity with cinema
and stage stars during the war years led to international fame and some
notoriety. As a noted photographer of s, he successfully contested
the prudish obscenity laws of his day, paving the way for others to
publish work that Roye himself considered to be pornographic.
His personal life was as unconventional as his professional milieu. He
lived in South Africa, Paris, London, Ireland and Portugal before
finally settling in the 12th-century kasbah of Rabat, Morocco.
He was born Horace Roye-Narbeth in Aylesbury in 1906, the son of a
draper. On leaving Aylesbury Grammar School he wanted to become a
solicitor, but his father, hoping that he would join the family
business, insisted that he accepted a trainees job in Marshall &
Snelgroves drapery department. He was dismissed, however, for going to
work in his evening suit after a drunken night on the tiles, and his
lifes odyssey began as he boarded a boat for South Africa.
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