BAILEY DAVID (1938 ) Jean Shrimpton

Sale 2191 - Lot 282

Price Realized: $ 16,800

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Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000

BAILEY, DAVID (1938- )
Jean Shrimpton. Silver print, 15 1/2x14 1/2 inches (39.4x36.8 cm.), flush mounted, with Bailey's signature, in ink, on recto and his signature, in pencil, the title, notations and a hand stamp on mount verso. 1963-1964

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From the collection of Tom Carnegie; by descent to his sons, William and Robert Carnegie.

This image was included in Bailey's Box of Pin-Ups (London, 1965).

The graphic look of the mid-1960s, known as "Mod," began in London, and with the birth of the mini-skirt, quickly became intrinsically linked with fashion photography. David Bailey, a Vogue photographer, is one of the best-known figures of this period.

Bailey often photographed Jean Shrimpton, one of the first supermodels of the period. Shrimpton, who today would be seen as the prototypical Kate Moss, was the model everyone tried to emulate. Bailey noted, "She was magic and the camera loved her too. In a way she was the cheapest model in the world-you only needed to shoot half a roll of film and then you had it. She had the knack of having her hand in the right place, she knew where the light was, she was just a natural."