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David Bailey's box of pin-ups
David Bailey, born 1938 - Enlarge image
David Bailey's box of pin-ups; Mick Jagger
- Object:
Photograph
- Place of origin:
London, England
- Date:
1965 (printed and published)
- Artist/Maker:
David Bailey, born 1938 (photographer)
Wyndham, Francis (writer)
Boxer, Mark, born 1931 - died 1988 (designer)
Hillman, David (designer) - Materials and Techniques:
Half-tone print
- Credit Line:
Given by Mark Haworth-Booth
- Museum number:
E.2047:20-2004
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case TECHS
David Bailey rose to fame as a fashion photographer in the early 1960s, his photographs. He published 'David Bailey's box of pin-ups' in 1965 as a loose portfolio of 36 portraits of the mainly-male fashionable elite that, as the cover description states, 'belong to Bailey's own world of fashion, pop music and the Ad Lib [nightclub]'. Each portrait is accompanied by notes by Francis Wyndham. Together, they constitute a celebration of the growing celebrity culture of the Sixties, and many of them have become the definitive images of key figures of cultural life in London during the Swinging Sixties.
Surprisingly, only four of the pin-ups are women, all of whom are models; as the notes explain, 'in the age of Mick Jagger, it is the boys who are the pin-ups'. This photograph, with Jagger's fur trim forming a kind of halo around his famous pouting lips, has become an icon of the Sixties.
