Terry O'Neill
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"Raquel Welch on the cross, Los Angeles, 1970"
Signed Terry O'Neill and numbered 13/50. Printed later. C-print, image 91.5 x 91 cm. Edition 50 + 10 AP.
Provenance
The Photogallery, Halmstad, Sweden.
Literature
Terry O'Neill, "Terry O'Neill: The A-Z of Fame", 2013, illustrated on fullpage p. 333.
More information
"Raquel is and always was a thoroughly decent girl - indeed she hated being seen as a sex object. She often chose difficult roles that challenged perceptions of her. She told me one day that she felt crucified by her image as a sex symbol and it gave me an idea. I dressed her in her fur bikini from One Million Years BC and put her on a cross. It was only afterwards - this is the late Sixties - that I realized we couldn't publish the image, because it would be seen as blasphemous, particularly in America. 'The negatives sat in a box in my studio for 30 years, unseen, until a friend who edited a big magazine found it and begged me to let him publish it in a retrospective of my work.'"
Quote from "Terry O'Neill: The A-Z of Fame"