Nudes 1981-1984

London: Dent, 1984.

First Edition. Quarto. Original dark red cloth in the slightly toned dust-jacket with additional shelf-rubbing at ends of the spine. Black-&-white photographic plates throughout. Without old inscriptions etc. A gallery of tastefully posed executed in the 1980s by the the photographer David Bailey. "Bailey's nudes are as usual women, or rather girls, splayed, draped, laid out in Ansel Adams landscapes and interiors by Helmut Newton, turned to stone or metal by long exposures, small apertures and Bailey's lapidary printing" - Germaine Greer, Literary Review, Dec. 1984