Exhibition
Christine Keeler My Life in Pictures - Mayor Gallery
Profumo Affair model Christine Keeler’s personal collection of photographs and letters to go on show this November at The Mayor Gallery, in London.
Seventy images, most of which have never been seen before, reveal the public and private face of ‘Scandal’ model Christine Keeler. Her simultaneous affairs with British War Minister John Profumo and naval attaché to the Russian Embassy in London, Eugene Ivanov, created the crucial threat to national security that brought down Macmillan’s Tory government in 1963.
The images, including contact sheets from photo-shoots by David Bailey and Brian Duffy, recreate an extraordinary story. There is an evocative colour photograph of Christine at one of the notorious Cliveden parties, her hair wet from the swimming pool; she is pictured in an elaborate showgirl costume at Murray’s cabaret club in Beak Street, Soho, in 1960, where she first met Mandy Rice-Davies. Another shows Christine with her friend Paula Hamilton Marshall, with whom she stayed during the trial, a copy of the Denning Report on the table beside them; there are portraits of her with her dog, at her dressing table, nibbling a chicken leg; a shoot taken on her first day out of jail; pin-up shots and soft-focus glamour portraits in the manner of film magazines of the day.
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