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Bailey's Democracy (Hardcover)

by David Bailey (Author), Desmond Morris (Author)

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Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: Thames & Hudson (7 Nov 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0500543151
ISBN-13: 978-0500543153
Product Dimensions: 33.6 x 26.8 x 2 cm

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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Recently, David Bailey turned his lens away from the glitterati and decided instead to focus on ordinary people - with startling results. Over a period of three years, people visiting David Bailey's studio were asked if they would agree to be photographed naked. None refused, and none was rejected. The results, presented here in one large-format volume, combine to form an all-inclusive, searingly honest portrait of humankind. Desmond Morris contributes an introduction.

About the Author
David Bailey has been at the top of his profession for over forty years. Among his other books are IfWe Shadows, The Lady is A Tramp, Archive One, Locations, Chasing Rainbows and David Bailey's Rock and Roll Heroes, all published by Thames & Hudson. Desmond Morris is an internationally renowned anthropologist, and the author of the seminal The Naked Ape.

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5.0 out of 5 stars David Bailey: still staying on the edge, 1 Dec 2005

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David Bailey wants the figures in this new book to be seen as naked, rather than nude. Nudes of course are about the idealisation of the human form. The naked figures in Democracy however, while standing with exactly the same framing, exactly the same distance from the large format camera, under exactly the same lighting, against exactly the same background, were pretty much free to display themselves as they chose. Contrary to the more habitual situation in Bailey’s studio, the subjects aren’t all models and celebrities. Initially they were chosen at random from the diverse group of people passing through the studio. Some Bailey knows well: others not at all. Continuing in the spirit of Democracy the figures are captioned by name, and the job description by which they choose to define themselves. Age, although diverse, is not mentioned at all; and Bailey emphasises that often the figures asked to pose were those more used to standing behind, or well away from, the camera. Nobody asked to pose refused, and nobody who posed was excluded from the final series.

The irony, in Democracy however, is that one of the strongest currents running through it is one the photographer himself is almost too close to admit. The subjects were indeed chosen at random, and they were indeed drawn from all who passed through the studio, and others who asked to be included. But there’s no getting away from the fact that the majority passing through Bailey’s studio is indeed the height of fashion and celebrity. Photographing such people unclad is by no means new. It’s been done, with varying degrees of sophistication, by contemporaries up to and including Bailey’s long term friend, and foil, the late Helmut Newton. But to present the constituent elements of fashion, and celebrity, and the street, truly devoid of their armour: naked, standing before the world, amongst their public, and achieving it with such undoubted style, is indeed staying on the edge. It’s very Bailey. And Bailey it would appear has a few miles of film yet to go.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Pictures speak louder than words., 18 Nov 2005

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I find this book a total delight; David Bailey has produced something special here. Society almost demands that we feel uncomfortable about our own body. We are expected to feel embarrassed if it is seen by others so most of us spend the majority of our lives hidden inside a layer of clothing. Here is a book full of photographs of people who refuse to fit into society's strait-jacket and are proud to be themselves. The simple uncluttered presentation makes each image very powerful indeed.

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