Originally posted by Victoria & Albert Museum: "David Bailey rose to fame as a fashion photographer in the early 1960s, his photographs. He published 'David Bailey's box of pin-ups' in 1965 as a loose portfolio of 36 portraits of the mainly-male fashionable elite that, as the cover description states, 'belong to Bailey's own world of fashion, pop music and the Ad Lib [nightclub]'. Each portrait is accompanied by notes by Francis Wyndham.
Surprisingly, only four of the pin-ups are women, all of whom are models. As the notes explain, 'in the age of Mick Jagger, it is the boys who are the pin-ups'. Here, Bailey photographs the film producer Jimmy Woolf, who is described in the notes as ' cool, smooth, intelligent, malicious' with the glamour of a chessmaster.
The portraits constitute a celebration of the growing celebrity culture of the Sixties, and many of them have become the definitive images of key figures of cultural life in London during the Swinging Sixties." |
Above quote references the portrait of Jimmy Woolf. Here's a link to the Victoria & Albert Museum's Bailey images. |