David Bailey's box of pin-ups
Photograph
1965 (printed and published)
1965 (printed and published)
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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'. Wyndham's commentary to this photograph suggests that 'the work of David Hockney has often been inaccurately described as pop painting: perhaps because (with his dyed yellow hair, his owlish spectacles and his fancy dress) he looks like a pop painting himself....'
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'. Wyndham's commentary to this photograph suggests that 'the work of David Hockney has often been inaccurately described as pop painting: perhaps because (with his dyed yellow hair, his owlish spectacles and his fancy dress) he looks like a pop painting himself....'
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| Materials and techniques | Half-tone print |
| Brief description | David Hockney, half-tone print from 'David Bailey's box of pin-ups', by David Bailey, published 1965 |
| Physical description | Black and white portrait of the artist David Hockney, wearing dark glasses, a stripey shirt and holding his hands out in his jacket pockets so that he looks like he has wings. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mark Haworth-Booth |
| Object history | 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. |
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| Summary | 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'. Wyndham's commentary to this photograph suggests that 'the work of David Hockney has often been inaccurately described as pop painting: perhaps because (with his dyed yellow hair, his owlish spectacles and his fancy dress) he looks like a pop painting himself....' |
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| Accession number | E.2047:23-2004 |
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| Record created | February 11, 2004 |
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