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Horace Roye was one of the great nude 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!
Horace Roye - London Times, June 18, 2002
Flamboyant photographer famous for his nudes 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 nudes, 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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