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Bailey’s Stardust, National Portrait Gallery, Until June 1

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Bailey’s Stardust, National Portrait Gallery, Until June 1

This collection of 250 photographs is the largest exhibition ever devoted to legendary British photographer David Bailey, whose illustrious career has spanned more than five decades. As the name of the showing implies, Bailey's pictures feature portraits of a star-studded array of musicians, actors and models, including Mick Jagger, Jack Nicholson, Helmut Newton, Kate Moss, Johnny Depp and Boy George.

One cannot fail to mention the photographer's images of Jean Shrimpton, who became Bailey's first Vogue cover girl in 1961 and consequently rose to fashion stardom. The couple's romantic relationship, which lasted for four years, has since become the stuff of legend. Shrimpton was Bailey's muse, while he helped to turn her into one of the world's first supermodels.

Bailey has stood out with his uncanny ability to capture special moments. He was an icon of the Swinging London fashion and cultural scene of the 1960s and served as the prototype for Michelangelo Antonioni's legendary film Blowup (1966). The exhibition also features photographs that Bailey took in 1974 during an expedition to Papua-New Guinea, as well as pictures from a charity mission in West Africa.

St Martin's Place
www.npg.org.uk

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