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  • Open David Bailey's Trouble and Strife' book with black and white photographs of nude Marie Helvin.
  • Open David Bailey's Trouble and Strife' book with black and white photographs of Marie Helvin.
  • Open David Bailey's Trouble and Strife' book with black and white photographs of nude Marie Helvin.
  • Open David Bailey's Trouble and Strife' book with black and white photographs of nude Marie Helvin.
  • Open David Bailey's Trouble and Strife' book with black and white photographs of nude Marie Helvin.
  • Open David Bailey's Trouble and Strife' book with black and white photographs of nude Marie Helvin.
  • Open David Bailey's Trouble and Strife' book with a black and white photograph of half-nude Marie Helvin sitting on a chair.
  • David Bailey’s Trouble and Strife, first edition published in 1980. Back cover of iconic photography monograph showing black-and-white image of a seated woman’s legs and heels beneath a chrome chair in dramatic high-contrast lighting.
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DAVID BAILEY'S TROUBLE AND STRIFE [1980]

DAVID BAILEY'S TROUBLE AND STRIFE [1980]

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Thames & Hudson, 1980 | Hardcover, unpaginated | 25 × 25 cm | First Edition

Bailey’s Trouble and Strife - Cockney slang for “wife” - is a darkly erotic study of intimacy, power and perception. Shot throughout the 1970s and published at the dawn of the Thatcher decade, this deeply personal volume was a statement of defiance: sexual liberation and artifice in a conservative cultural moment. It captures Bailey at his most distilled: high-gloss, high-voltage, wholly unrepentant. The portraits of Marie Helvin shimmer with a kind of lucid danger - sex as theatre, body as architecture, gaze as weapon.

Comprising eighty-one photographs - and no text between images - this is a pure photobook: silent, cinematic and charged. Printed on heavy semi-gloss paper stock that amplifies the depth of the duotone reproductions, each image feels intimate and iconic - collapsing fashion into fine art and desire into documentation.

Bound in vivid red cloth with a gilt Thames & Hudson emblem embossed to front, the book is housed in publisher's original photographic dust jacket. With a preface by J. H. Lartigue and an introduction by Brian Clarke.

Excellent condition: Boards sharp and unfaded. Interior pristine, with just a hint of age-tanning along the edges of the pages. Binding tight. No inscriptions. Dust jacket clean and complete, though lightly yellowed. A better example than most.

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