{"product_id":"david-baileys-trouble-and-strife-1980","title":"DAVID BAILEY'S TROUBLE AND STRIFE [1980]","description":"\u003cp\u003eThames \u0026amp; Hudson, 1980 | Hardcover, unpaginated | 25 × 25 cm | First Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBailey’s \u003ci\u003eTrouble and Strife\u003c\/i\u003e - 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 \u003cspan\u003ewas a statement of defiance: sexual liberation and artifice in a conservative cultural moment. I\u003c\/span\u003et captures Bailey at his most distilled: high-gloss, high-voltage, wholly unrepentant. The portraits of \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eMarie Helvin\u003c\/span\u003e shimmer with a kind of lucid danger - sex as theatre, body as architecture, gaze as weapon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComprising 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound in vivid red cloth with a gilt Thames \u0026amp; Hudson emblem embossed to front, the book is housed in publisher's original photographic dust jacket. With a preface by \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eJ. H. Lartigue\u003c\/span\u003e and an introduction by \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eBrian Clarke\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eExcellent condition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eBoards 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRINTED AFFAIRS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56785092084036,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0865\/8386\/9764\/files\/DAVID_BAILEYS_TROUBLE_AND_STRIFE_1980_4497.jpg?v=1779644999","url":"https:\/\/printedaffairs.com\/products\/david-baileys-trouble-and-strife-1980","provider":"PRINTED AFFAIRS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}