"In 1962, Bailey persuaded Vogue to let him take his first great muse, Jean Shrimpton, to New York for his first foreign assignment. The impact of the images they made there, crackling with life and attitude, was extraordinary. As Marit Allen, the editor of Vogue's Young Idea section at the time, says: Jean and Bailey in New York broke the ground for fashion as it was from them on. They turned the world upside down' "
"Bailey joined Vogue in 1960 and his ascent was meteoric, publishing his first cover in 1961. He quickly established himself as the lead photographer at Vogue, though he insists he has never once set out to take a Vogue photograph. His celebrated Box of Pin-Ups, featuring 36 members of London's glitterati, forms the centrepiece of the exhibition His earliest images of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones catch precisely the differences between the bands."
David Bailey transformed fashion photography in the 1960s and 1970s with dynamic posing, pared-down compositions, and a new vocabulary of body shape and gesture. His studio, filled with tribal masks, oriental boxes and stuffed animals, became a personal portal reflecting restless intelligence. Bailey's collaboration with Jean Shrimpton in New York produced energetic, attitudinal images that altered fashion imagery. He joined Vogue in 1960 and rose quickly, publishing a first cover in 1961 and producing the celebrated Box of Pin-Ups. Early portraits of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones emphasized contrasting band personas and supported the British invasion of New York.
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