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David Bailey

8 Minutes: Hirst & Bailey
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David Bailey presents a raw, spontaneous collection of 130 photographs capturing artist Damien Hirst during a single eight-minute shoot. The images showcase unpolished, playful poses as Hirst directly engages with the camera, embodying Bailey's democratic approach to photography that eschews traditional composition or digital enhancement.
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This book will appeal to fans of contemporary art and photography, especially those interested in candid portraiture and the cultural crossover between prominent visual artists like David Bailey and Damien Hirst.

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David Bailey, born in London in 1938, is one of the most successful photographers of his generation. By the 1960s his work, especially for "Vogue", had already made him a cult figure. This title features 130 photographs of Damien Hirst taken by Bailey during a single shoot lasting eight minutes.

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The premise of this book couldn't be simpler: 130 photographs of Damien Hirst taken by David Bailey during a single shoot lasting eight minutes. Each pose is spontaneous and determined not by Bailey but by Hirst, who mocks the camera with his tongue poked out, mouth open wide and hands pulling at his cheeks.

These photos are humble and unrehearsed, continuing the spirit of Bailey's Democracy in which Bailey photographed a cross-section of naked subjects, shunning issues of composition, lighting, and digital manipulation. Renouncing text and even a title page, 8 Minutes resists formulaic, over-designed coffee-table publications. Bailey's roguish message: what you see is what you get.

David Bailey, born in London in 1938, is one of the most successful photographers of his generation. By the 1960s his work, especially for Vogue, had already made him a cult figure. His numerous books include Trouble and Strife, Nudes, If We Shadows, The Lady Is a Tramp, and David Bailey's Rock 'n' Roll Heroes. Steidl has published Birth of the Cool, Chasing Rainbows, Locations, Bailey's Democracy, Havana, NY JS DB 62, Pictures That Mark Can Do, and Is That So Kid.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783865218643

Publisher: Steidl Publishers

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 27 July 2009

Country: Germany

Imprint: Steidl Verlag

Illustration: Illustrated in colour throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 260.0mm

Height: 330.0mm

Weight: 2320g

Pages: 264

About the Author

London-born David Bailey (b. 1938) is widely acknowledged as one of the founding fathers of contemporary photography, having shot some of the most iconic portraits of the last six decades. Baileyโ€™s early work helped both define and capture 1960s London, when he made stars of a new generation of models, including Jean Shrimpton and Penelope Tree. Bailey channeled the energy of Londonโ€™s informal street culture to create a new style of casual coolness. Drawing inspiration from Modernism, he injected movement and immediacy into his work by using a very direct, cropped perspective. Baileyโ€™s interests extend to commercials, film, painting, and sculpture.

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