Horace Roye (British, 1906-2002) - Untitled, c.1940

Untitled, c.1940, gelatin silver print, with copyright stamp Camera Studies Club (verso).
Stained on obverse, corners slightly bumped, otherwise in good condition. Please check the scans for details.

Horace Roye (1906-2002) was considered one of the most important British photographers of the 1930 and '40s, with his works in the collections of the UK's National Portrait Gallery, and other institutions.

Roye's photograph Tomorrow's Crucifixion, depicting a nude model wearing a gas mask while pinned to a crucifix caused controversy when published in the North London Recorder in August 1938, but later became a noted photograph of its time. From then until his retirement in 1959, he made around 10,000 nude studies and collaborated with other important British photographers, including Walter Bird and John Everard, by selling their works through the Camera Studies Club. As a photographer of nudes, he successfully contested the obscenity laws of his day.