Goodbye Baby & Amen (US)

Bailey, David

Code: 2896

ISBN: 9780900303067

Publisher: New York, Coward McCann, 1969

New Hardcover First Edition, Signed by the photographer

Price: £350

Out of stock

This is the US edition of this highly sort after volume, a whos who of the sixties. In many ways Bailey helped create the Swinging London of the 1960s, mixing the culture of high fashion with celebrity chic. As such, Bailey became as famous as the people he photographed, who included fashion designer Mary Quant, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, singers Marianne Faithfull and Sandie Shaw, actresses Mia Farrow, Catherine Deneuve and Geraldine Chaplin, actors Peter Sellers and Michael Caine, and models Jean Shrimpton, Twiggy and Penelope Tree. Bailey's direct, 'in your face', high contrast portraits, which showed an indebtedness to Irving Penn and Richard Avedon, established a look which still dominates editorial portraiture to this day. His tightly cropped images, which broke many of the established rules of photography, fitted the times well and brought a new style of transparency and full exposure to the burgeoning celebrity culture. In over 40 years Bailey has felt no need to change the way he shoots his subjects, predominantly using black and white film, shooting with minimal props, and employing striking contrasts between light and dark tones. Cowan McCann, New York 1969 0900303069 Hardcover, 237 pages 14" x 11"