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Peter Carey

1989 (printed 2002)
Lewis Morley

gelatin silver photograph on paper (sheet: 40.2 cm x 30.3 cm, image: 39.0 cm x 25.5 cm)

Peter Carey (b. 1943), author, is only the second writer to twice win the Booker Prize, one of the world's major literary awards. He won it with Oscar and Lucinda (1988), an idiosyncratic romance once described as 'one of the finest Victorian novels of the twentieth century', and with the magnificent True History of the Kelly Gang (2000). Illywhacker (1985) was an earlier contender for the prize. Before becoming a full-time author Carey worked in advertising, contributing significantly to the success of the Australian wine industry with the slogan 'You make us smile, Dr Lindeman'. This photograph, characterised by Morley as 'the lark descending', was taken in Carey's Surry Hills office in 1989. Carey now lives and works in New York.

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2002
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
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Artist and subject

Lewis Morley (age 64 in 1989)

Peter Carey AO (age 46 in 1989)

Donated by

Lewis Morley (49 portraits)

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