Peter Schlesinger photographer – Maureen, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava is included in the book Checkered Past.

Schlesinger was able to address his ‘portraits’ in the natural surroundings of his ‘models’, both in England and on the European Continent. The results are casual portraits of such luminaries as Hockney himself, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Paloma Picasso, Twiggy, Robert Mapplethorpe, Yves Saint Laurent, Manolo Blahnik, Celia Birtwell, and Rudolf Nureyev, self portraits – many of these photographs were used by Hockney as sketch ideas for his drawings and paintings.

What is the definition of a “checkered past”?
A morally dubious past.