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David Bailey : Eye
, Steidl, 2009 Hardcover , 192 pages, ENG, 335 x 265 x 25 mm, in perfect condition, Full page photographs in colour / b/w. ISBN 9783865217080.
"I treat the boy down at the post office like the president of Russia, and the president of Russia like the boy down at the post office." (David Bailey) Eye presents a selection of Bailey's photographs spanning from 1962 to 2008. Mostly black-and-white, some in color, they feature influential directors, artists, fashion designers and musicians, including Andy Warhol, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Yves Saint Laurent, John Huston and Ellsworth Kelly. Despite the broad cross-section of subjects and the different creative spheres they inhabit, Bailey approaches them all with the same, egalitarian attitude - each is as important, or unimportant, as the next. This approach, often expressed by Bailey's lack of props and minimal lighting, enables the photographer to tease from his subjects traits which often absent from more formal portraits - the warm benevolence of I.M. Pei for example, the exuberance of John Galliano, or the brooding look of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Crowned with cover art by Damien Hirst, Bailey's Eye reveals unexpected facets of the creative minds who have defined and in many cases continue to shape the culture in which we live.
Flowers, Skulls, Contacts David Bailey
, Steidl, 2010 168 pages, gebonden, hardcover, English text ISBN 9783869301280.
What do flowers, skulls and contact sheets have in common? Not much you might think, but David Bailey begs to differ. This book combines Bailey's recent colour photographs of still-life flowers and skulls, with black and white contacts of his iconic celebrity portraiture and fashion work from the 1960s. One might analyze Bailey's combination of these bodies of work in light of the vanitas tradition, seeing it as a commentary on mortality and the passing of time. Indeed such a reading is tempting when comparing images of wilting roses with contacts of Brian Jones and John Lennon, both of whom appear confident in the prime of youth, unaware of the fates that will befall them. But perhaps this is too much, and Bailey himself would probably tell you so. For him, the flowers, skulls and contacts are simply different projects that he was working on simultaneously and decided to combine because he likes the idea of "eclectic collections". Enough said.
David Bailey : Locations , die siebziger jahre
, Steidl 2008, 2008 Hardcover, 260 seiten, Deutsch, 335 x 270 mm, buch in sehr guten zustand, . ISBN 9783882439496.
War David Bailey in den Swinging Sixties der Inbegriff des Londoner Fotografen, so spiegeln seine Fotografien der 1970er Jahre eine radikale Neuorientierung wider. Wie diese umfangreiche Auswahl zeigt, wurde seine Thematik wahrhaft international. Im Laufe des Jahrzehnts beschloss Bailey, Menschen und Orte auf der ganzen Welt zu fotografieren, die ihn faszinierten. Neben diesen Fotografien pr sentiert dieser Band Bilder seiner Modesitzungen der 1970er Jahre (mit Marie Helvin, Penelope Tree und Anjelica Huston) sowie seine Portr ts von Motiven von Salvador Dali und Mick Jagger bis hin zu Margaret Thatcher und Mutter Teresa. Seine gefeierten Fernsehdokumentationen ber Andy Warhol, Cecil Beaton und Luchino Visconti boten noch mehr M glichkeiten f r berzeugende Stills. --Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine alternative Hardcover-Ausgabe.
