David Bailey - Nudes 1981-1984 - 1984

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FANTASTIC BOOK WITH THE EROTIC PHOTOS by famous British photographer David Bailey.

Taken in the 1980s, Bailey's nude images of women are more experimental than his portrait work, with sexualised and macarbe elements. The female figures are draped in a plethora of materials including armour, bandages, wire, cloth, ribbon, tinsel, and feathers.

WITH ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET.

J.M. Dent&Sons Ltd., London. 1984. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover in burgund linen with dustjacket. 255 x 332 mm. 90 pages. Photos: David Bailey. Text in English.

Condition:
Inside clean with no previous owner marks and with no foxing; first and last blank page with a few yellow stains, all other pages fresh and flawless. Dustjacket quite fresh and complete with no tears, with no taped tears and with no missing parts; lightly sunned. Overall fine condition.

Great, early David Bailey title, showing his best nude photos between 1981 and 1984, the great, dark, widely unknown part of the artist's legendary work.

David Bailey was born in 1938 in London. He taught himself photography, and in 1959, following a year serving with the Royal Air Force in Malaysia, he began his long and distinguished career when he was appointed as a photographic assistant at the John French Studio in London. Bailey started as a fashion photographer for Vogue Magazine in 1960, and subsequently as a freelance photographer who has worked for every major publication in the world. From 1966 he also directed television commercials and documentaries. Bailey has held numerous personal exhibitions in London and worldwide (Finland, Sweden, the United States of America, Germany and Italy). He has also produced numerous publications, first publication was "Box of Pinups" in 1964.