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Photo London 2025: David Bailey
Past exhibition
14 - 18 May 2025
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Photo London 2025: David Bailey
Past exhibition
14 - 18 May 2025
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: David Bailey, Jean Shrimpton [Fur Coat], 1963-2009

David Bailey UK, b. 1938

Jean Shrimpton [Fur Coat], 1963-2009
Silver gelatin print, framed
Signed by the artist, on verso
Image: approx. 46 x 46 cm
Framed: 69.5 x 66 cm
© David Bailey
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This iconic image of Jean Shrimpton, Bailey’s most famous muse, captures the essence of their revolutionary partnership. Created during the height of their professional and personal relationship, this photograph embodies...
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This iconic image of Jean Shrimpton, Bailey’s most famous muse, captures the essence of their revolutionary partnership. Created during the height of their professional and personal relationship, this photograph embodies the fresh, youthful aesthetic they introduced to fashion photography. Shrimpton’s direct gaze and the simplified composition convey what Bailey described to Vogue in 1965: ‘A rose is not always a rose, sometimes it is a Shrimpton.’

Bailey’s portrait of Jean Shrimpton represents the pivotal shift Bailey engineered in fashion photography, moving from formal, distant compositions to a more intimate, authentic approach. Its cultural significance extends beyond fashion, documenting a moment when photography was actively reshaping societal perceptions of beauty, celebrity, and modernity.
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