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...Edwards, spoke movingly about her cancer, saying she accepted the TIME 100 honor "only as a representative of all the men and women who are facing diagnoses like mine, and who continue to fight." NBC News anchor Brian Williams spoke of his heroes of broadcast journalism, Walter Cronkite and Morley Safer. Amr Khaled, the televangelist from Egypt, spoke passionately about young Islamic men and women who want peaceful co-existence with the rest of the world, and asked us to reach out our hands to them. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson spoke of how astronomer Carl Sagan had generously offered...
Around that time Morley was given his first Kodak Brownie, and later, as a struggling painter in England, he found the camera useful for recording what he couldn't draw. From 1960, when he was asked to document the first of more than 100 West End plays, it provided his livelihood. Despite the stylistic constraints, his lens would draw something alluring from the shadows. What came into focus was not so much celebrity as the public's fascination for it. In 1963, Morley was invited by Beatles manager Brian Epstein to Liverpool, where he photographed the band's birthplace...
Befriended by Morley and entrusted with his home archive, Annear began searching for a connecting thread. Having turned 20th century photography upside down in her 2000 show "World Without End," this assiduous sleuth found her subject. Whether photographing the then-unknown Twiggy on a London street, or a ghostly skeleton in a Tasmanian museum 30 years later, Morley's instinct has been the same. Now in its final weeks at the AGNSW, Annear's survey show turns a celebrity shooter into a more curious gatherer of found objects...
...Exhibit A has always been Keeler. Brought by Cook to publicize a film project, she arrived at Morley's studio less hardened and more na?ve than the photographer was expecting, and the impression rings true of the man himself. In the decades since, Morley has rarely searched for a subject, finding fascination in what is close at hand. His insular gaze could be a legacy of the war years, when he and his family were interned by the Japanese...
...After moving to Sydney in 1971, Morley, too, shrank from view, moving away from commercial portraits toward home interiors for magazines; from faces to people-less landscapes. Morley has called the Keeler shot an albatross, and in the random pictures Annear has artfully assembled in the final room?an Indian child glimpsed through a bootmaker's doorway, a whirling carousel backlit by the sun, a garden shed that appears like Doctor Who's time machine in a misty Paris garden?Morley seeks to transcend the defining image, a kind of freedom this exhibition finally grants...