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David Bailey's box of pin-ups
David Bailey, born 1938 - Enlarge image
David Bailey's box of pin-ups; The Rolling Stones
- 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.2047:30-2004
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level H, case X, shelf 909, box N
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'. Here the Rolling Stones, formed in 1962, pose as the new 'boy band' phenomenon.
