Photobook – David Bailey – Chasing Rainbows

£25.00

Photobook – David Bailey – Chasing Rainbows

Hardback
Size: 33.5 x 27 cm
Pages: 224
Illustrations: over 150 colour illustrations
Published: 2001
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Stock number: 017789/0123
Price: £25 + P & P
Hardback. Red cloth boards in very good condition. In a fine photo – illustrated dust jacket, also in very good condition and is protected by a clear removable sleeve.
Commissioned by the best – known fashion magazines of the time, including Italian and French Vogue, these portraits of what Vogue once called ‘The Bailey Kind of Girl’ include models such as Jean Shrimpton, Marie Helvin, Penelope Tree, and Bailey’s wife, Catherine Dyer. Blended with these are Bailey’s startling ethnographic portraits of, for example, Asaro mud men and Indian dancers, and his own paintings, at the heart of which lies an abstract kind of beauty. In his illuminating introduction, Robin Muir sets these photographs in the context of the period in which they were taken and reminds us that for over forty years Bailey has challenged our notions of female beauty with his own highly personal vision.

Photobook - David Bailey - Archive One
Photobook - Anthony Armstrong - Jones - Snowdon On Stage

David Bailey is an English fashion photographer best known for his images of celebrities, models, and musicians. Though he is also known for his photography book NWI (1982), which documented the process of gentrification in the London neighbourhoods of Primrose Hill and Camden. Born on January 2, 1938 in London, United Kingdom, Bailey dropped out of high school to serve in the Royal Air Force where he developed an interest in the photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Returning to England, Bailey began working as the fashion photographer John French’s assistant. Over the course of the 1960s and 70s, the artist gained attention from the press after a string of high-profile marriages to Jean Shrimpton, Catherine Deneuve, and Marie Helvin. In 1965, he published his first photography book Box of Pin-Ups, a collection of black-and-white images portraying Mick Jagger, The Beatles, Twiggy, and Andy Warhol, along with several other celebrity figures. Bailey has gone on to receive the title of Commander of the Order of the British Empire from Queen Elizabeth II, and in 2016 a Lifetime Achievement award from the International Center of Photography in New York. The artist’s photographs are held in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Bailey currently lives and works in London, United Kingdom.

Share: