David Bailey. Archive One 1957-1969

London: Thames & Hudson, 1999.

First Edition. Large hardback with the excellent dust-jacket. Quarto. 313 photographs (257 in b/w, 56 col.) First edition. 273 pages. Starting with his early days in London's East End, the shots and accompanying narrative text chart Bailey's progression through his first photographic experiences as an assistant to John French; his early years on Vogue; his close relationship with the stars of rock music - which resulted in images of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones that form the iconography of the 1960s; and his friendships and love affairs with some of the period's most alluring women - models Jean Shrimpton and Penelope Tree and the actor Catherine Deneuve. The book brings together some of Bailey's most iconic photographs of the swinging sixties as well as images that reflect his less salubrious upbringing under the gaze of Bow Bells and the thrall of the gangster Kray Twins.