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exhibition presents original prints reveal the characters of public and private Pygmalion playwright

George Bernard Shaw

be exposed, bare as never before, when the contents of cupboards and drawers, albums and boxes stuffed in his final resting place on the screen for the first time - the thousands of photographs that were other great passion Nobel life.

An exhibition of original prints will be open to Fox Talbot Foundation of the National Museum in Lacock, Wiltshire, on Thursday as the guardian of the photographic archives of Shaw from the London School of Economics, has mounted an online exhibition as well. Both have great pictures, some of Shaw naked, apart from his mustache.

than 10,000 images, mostly printed by Shaw, Roger Watson, curator of Lacock, has chosen a striking self-portrait of the playwright lying on a couch, lit by a single bare light outside a book strategically placed. Shaw Long, lean body could be the tomb of a medieval sculpture, as well as tracks in the shadow of a background of 20 th century.

"It's really a very striking and unusual," said Watson. "A photographer would have cut more classic feel light, but for me that is the image."

Karyn Stuckey, the curator of the LSE, which has been cataloging the vast collection and created the online exhibit, was surprised when he discovered the image of a naked duck Shaw set up your camera, which is reflected in a mirror. "I was plowing through hundreds of prints something different rather boring and expected to go to another, and suddenly I went" Whoa, what's ?'"

Shaw, who took the photo in 1898, often photographed himself naked, and landed on a beach like Rodin's Thinker for Harley Granville Barker actor, but admitted that "I just saw constipation ".

two shows are full of curious biographical clues. There are relatively few pictures of men, but many beautiful and sexy pictures - friends - whether fully clothed. These include the actor Lillah McCarthy and even more beautiful Beatrice Webb, co-founder of the LSE with Shaw and her husband and fellow Fabian, Sidney Webb. His most famous protagonist, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, was captured in bed. He writes: "I want the lighter of my seven lamps of beauty, honor, laughter, music, love, life and immortality," but the paper the relationship almost completely burned

The house and contents are left to the National Trust. In 1979, photographs, still uncatalogued, and many old movie rotten and potentially dangerous, were transferred to the archives of the London School of Economics for safe storage. In a marathon joint LSE and National Trust project have all been preserved, digitized - almost crashed the website of the LSE -. And listed in the last two years

Shaw is usually written comments photographic exhibitions thunder long before I started photography. Stuckey and Watson agree that the best that have been taken with the first cameras to Shaw, when he was experimenting with lighting and color printing at the beginning, and the creation of integrated shooting surprisingly requires careful planning and the minutes of the immobility of his subjects, instead of instant happens when he bought a Leica and began using a 35 mm film in the 1930s.

a handful of his photographs have been reproduced or displayed in his life, but thousands had not been seen by anyone since Shaw was last seen in them.

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