Clay Perry
b. 1940, United Kingdom
In the midst of 1960s London, Clay Perry was the photographer for the avant-garde art scene, documenting the most innovative international artists of the period, including Yoko Ono, David Medalla, Liliane Lijn, Robert Rauschenberg, Sérgio Camargo, Gustav Metzger, Jesús Rafael Soto, Takis and Mark Boyle.
Perry became house photographer for the legendary SIGNALS Gallery, producing images for its iconic SIGNALS Newsbulletin that provided a forum for artists, writers and poets involved in experimental art.
Clay Perry studied photography at Guilford School of Art, and began his involvement with SIGNALS in the summer of 1964. He went on to take photographs for Indica Gallery who exhibited Takis in 1966, and to photograph Yoko Ono at her Lisson Gallery exhibition in 1967. Perry later became an established editorial photographer, working extensively for the Sunday Times Magazine, producing books with Thames & Hudson. His work is represented in the National Portrait Gallery, London, and his photographs from the 1960s have been exhibited in London and São Paulo and reproduced in numerous international publications.
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