David Bailey: The iconic portraits that have defined Britain since the 1960s
An exhibition of 300 subjects shows the photographer is as relevant today as he was in the Swinging Sixties
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Your support makes all the difference.In 1965, portrait and fashion photographer David Bailey released his groundbreaking book Box Of Pin-Ups, securing him as the hip tastemaker for 1960s London cool.
With Mick Jagger as best man at his wedding to Catherine Deneuve, Bailey was also the inspiration for the classic movie Blow-Up.
From the Swinging Sixties to the present day, Bailey has never stopped pushing the boundaries of his signature in-your-face portraiture and is widely regarded as one of the great postwar photographers.
This big book of Bailey is the culmination of an incredible career, the result of two years’ worth of research into his personal archives.
Through penetrating pictures of the beautiful and the notorious, the idolised and the powerful, friends and family, writers, artists, and fellow photographers, Bailey presents a sweeping cultural history of the past 60 years.
Featured subjects include Andy Warhol, Salvador Dalí, Kate Moss, Nelson Mandela, Francis Bacon, Zaha Hadid, the Rolling Stones, Jack Nicholson, Brigitte Bardot, Margaret Thatcher, and hundreds more.
You can purchase ‘David Bailey’, here
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