Девід Бейлі був частиною нового покоління, яке здійснило революцію у фешн-фотографії 1960-х років і зробило зірок такими моделями, як Джин Шрімптон. Він також був серед перших фотографів, які стали знаменитостями, спілкуючись та фотографуючи багатьох культурних ікон 1960-х і 1970-х років, таких як Катрін Деньов, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Майкл Кейн та Енді Воргол. Він мав контракти з британським, американським та італійським Vogue та співпрацював з багатьма іншими великими журналами та газетами протягом понад 40 років. Його простий та безпосередній стиль супроводжується інтимністю, яка розкриває індивідуальність та чуттєвість його об'єктів.

Протягом своєї успішної кар'єри Бейлі створив книги, картини, рекламні ролики, документальні фільми та художні фільми і залишається відомою фігурою у фотографії та кіновиробництві. Ця книга заглиблюється в архів фотографа та пропонує захопливий огляд його кар'єри, включаючи ранні та раніше неопубліковані роботи, а також його культові портрети з Лондона та Нью-Йорка 1960-х років.

51 tritone plates

“Is that so Kid” was a typical reaction by the film director, John Huston, father of Anjelica. In 1973 Bailey did all his major fashion shoots for British Vogue with actress and then sometimes model, Anjelica Huston. The book is a record of this photographic collaboration.

If David Bailey was the quintessential London photographer during the Swinging Sixties, the photographs he produced in the 1970s reflect a radical reorientation. As can be seen in this superb and comprehensive selection, his subject matter became truly international.

On a major assignment for Vogue in January 1970, Bailey photographed fashion against the dramatic mountain backdrops of Central Turkey. Throughout the decade that followed, he determined to photograph peoples and places across the world that fascinated him. His incisive documents of India, Peru, Japan, Haiti, Brazil and New Guinea, many previously unpublished, culminate in the most political of his reportages – haunting images of the Vietnamese boat people.

Alongside these remarkable photographs, Locations presents the best of Bailey’s 1970s fashion sittings. During this era Bailey also continued as a master of the art of portraiture, his subjects ranging from Salvador Dalí and Mick Jagger to Mother Teresa. His acclaimed television documentaries on Andy Warhol, Cecil Beaton and Luchino Visconti provided yet more opportunities for compelling stills.

The name of David Bailey is synonymous with photographs of beautiful people. In this latest celebration of his art, he brings together for the first time the best of all these photographs from the 1960s up to the present day.

Through his long and extraordinarily successful career, he has focused on the faces that represents the apex of beauty for a particular time. Like the rainbow, this beauty comes and goes – yet Bailey has spent a lifetime chasing these rainbows and has succeeded in capturing the iconic faces of each era.

Commissioned by the finest fashion magazines of the time, most notably Italian and French Vogue, these portraits include models such as Jean Shrimpton, Marie Helvin, Jerry Hall, Penelope Tree, and Bailey’s wife, Catherine Dyer. But Bailey’s idea of beauty does not end with fashionable women. It encompasses such pillars of contemporary culture as Yves St Laurent, Helmut Newton and Manolo Blahnik, as well as startling ethnographic portraits, and Bailey’s strangely haunting paintings – published here in book form for the first time – reveal at their heart an abstract kind of beauty.

Robin Muir’s text charts Bailey’s meteoric career from his first days at Vogue up to today and reminds us of the ways in which Britain’s greatest living photographer has challenged our notions of female beauty with his own highly personal vision.

No admirer of either beauty or Bailey will want to be without this book.

60 color and b/w photographs