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Photo London 2025: David Bailey

Past exhibition
14 - 18 Mai 2025
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: David Bailey, Nudes 81-84 [Bare Essentials] , 1981-1984

David Bailey UK, 1938

Nudes 81-84 [Bare Essentials] , 1981-1984
Silver Gelatin, framed
Signed by the artist, on verso
Sheet: 60.9 x 50.8 cm
© David Bailey
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David Bailey’s provocative work from his Nudes series is a personal exploration of the nude form. Through deliberately unsettling interventions, it challenges conventional representations of the female body and ideas...
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David Bailey’s provocative work from his Nudes series is a personal exploration of the nude form. Through deliberately unsettling interventions, it challenges conventional representations of the female body and ideas of beauty. This series marks Bailey’s provocative shift from commercial glamour to psychological interrogation.

The fragmented bodies from this series evoke Hans Bellmer’s surrealist dislocations, while the deliberate obfuscation of identity challenges the male gaze endemic to traditional nude photography. Germaine Greer noted its subversion of erotic tropes, revealing Bailey as ‘overwhelmingly involved with the photograph itself’, the surface and materiality of the image taking precedence. Bailey’s use of chiaroscuro lighting transforms flesh into topographic abstraction, a technique echoing Bill Brandt’s Perspective of Nudes (1961).

These works emerged from a specific cultural moment: the early 1980s collision between feminist critique and postmodern aesthetic strategies. Bailey’s nudes deliberately engage this tension, using the camera’s mechanical gaze to transform living subjects into formal studies of light and shadow. This image highlights Bailey’s examination of photographic materiality and his complex relationship with the medium’s inherent objectification.
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