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Professor Jan Morris
Jan Morris was an historian and travel writer, described as ‘the Flaubert of the jet age’. Born James Morris, she underwent gender affirmation surgery in 1972. Her frank and moving account of discovering and pursuing her true identity as a woman was diarised in her book, Conundrum (1972), perhaps one of the most influential books of its kind. As a journalist, Morris was the first to report the conquest of Mount Everest in 1953. Her atmospheric portraits of cities, including Venice, Oxford and New York, are widely celebrated, as is Pax Britannia, her three-volume social history of the British Empire.
Image: © David Hurn / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 56317
Acquisition
Gift, 25/4/2017
Donated by David Hurn, 2017
Measurements
h(cm) image size:33
h(cm)
w(cm) image size:33.1
w(cm)
h(cm) paper size:55.9
w(cm) paper size:43.2
Techniques
Digital Pigment Print
Material
Paper
Location
In store
Categories
Ffotograff | Photograph Gweithiau ar bapur | Works on paper Celf Gain | Fine Art CADP content Portread wedi'i Enwi | Named portrait Menyw, Dynes | Woman Hanesydd | Historian Awdur | Writer Llyfr | Book LHDTC+ | LGBTQ+ Trawsryweddol | Transgender Artistiaid y 21ain ganrif | Active in the 21st CenturyComments are currently unavailable. We apologise for the inconvenience.