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Born in Austria in 1908, "Count" Theodore Zichy (a nephew of Mihaly von Zichy, painter to the court of Czar Alexander II and illustrator of Byron) was a mysterious and eccentric British photographer, film-maker, actor and playboy. Zichy’s leg and shoe fetish was clearly documented in his scarce 1948 portfolio entitled - 20 Chiaroscuros. His seductive and dramatically lit images are charged with a dark obsessive irony. Literature: That Was No Gentleman, That Was Zichy, Polybooks, London, 1974 [Courtesy of Muse XX, October 2007] |
