David Bailey Flowers. This book combines david bailey s recent color photographs of still life flowers and skulls with black and white contacts of his iconic celebrity portraiture and fashion work from the 1960s. What do flowers skulls and contact sheets have in common.
What do flowers skulls and contact sheets have in common. Not much you might think but. Early life david bailey was born at whipps cross university hospital in leytonstone to herbert bailey a tailor s cutter and his wife gladys a machinist.
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. 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. 9783869301280 from amazon s book store. Flowers skulls contacts 01 by david bailey isbn.
