David Bailey: Bailey's Peru

by David Bailey (Photographer)

A visual documentary of Peru and its people from British fashion and portrait photographer David Bailey This new title by David Bailey (born 1938) originates from two fashion shoots on location in Peru―the first in the late 1960s, the other from the late ‘80s, for Tatler . Having been struck by the natural beauty of the people and places on these fashion assignments, Bailey set out to document people around the world in their natural habitats. Bailey's Peru collects his photography from those a mixture of landscape, fashion and portrait photography that showcases Bailey’s immense and multifaceted talents. In both color and black and white, Bailey captures and celebrates the undeniable beauty of the land and its people.

120 pages, Hardcover

Published February 19, 2019

About the author

David Bailey is one of the most respected photographers in the world. He worked as a fashion photographer for Vogue magazine, but he is also known for his work on the ‘Swinging London’ scene from the 1960s, which gave him celebrity photographer status.

Bailey’s fashion work and celebrity portraiture, characterized by stark backgrounds and dramatic lighting effects, transformed British fashion and celebrity photography from chic but reserved stylization to something more youthful and direct. His work reflects the 1960s British cultural trend of breaking down antiquated and rigid class barriers by injecting a working-class or “punk” look into both clothing and artistic products. Bailey himself became a celebrity who epitomized “swinging London”; he was known for his affairs with several celebrated women, among them the model Jean Shrimpton and the actress Catherine Deneuve, whom he married in 1965 (divorced 1972). He is thought to have inspired the role of the photographer, Thomas, in Michelangelo Antonioni’s film Blow-up (1966).