David Bailey: 8 Minutes: Hirst & Bailey

by Damien Hirst and David Bailey

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The premise of this book couldn’t be simpler: 130 photographs of Damien Hirst taken by David Bailey during a single shoot lasting eight minutes. Each pose is spontaneous and determined not by Bailey but by Hirst, who mocks the camera with his tongue poked out, mouth open wide and hands pulling at his cheeks. These photos are humble and unrehearsed, and so continue the sprit of Bailey’s Democracy in which Bailey photographed a cross-section of naked subjects, shunning issues of composition, lighting and digital manipulation. Renouncing text and even a title page, 8 Minutes resists formulaic over-designed coffee-table publications....Read more
  • ISBN13 9783865218643
  • Publish Date 27 July 2009
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country DE
  • Publisher Steidl Publishers
  • Imprint Steidl Verlag
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 264
  • Language English