Faggionato Fine Arts is pleased to announce their forthcoming exhibition of sixteen new photographs by David Bailey. Thirty years ago Bailey decided he wanted to do something un-cast, un-posed and organic. Studio visitors were asked if they would agree to be photographed naked. Abandoning issues of framing, composition, backdrop and lighting, each volunteer mostly strangers and non-celebrities was treated in exactly the same way. No digital manipulation was applied. These are naked people — old, young, model perfect, ordinary looking.
T hree years ago, David Bailey put out the word that he wanted naked people - lots of them. Not nudes: nudes he was bored of. He wears combats and a safari jacket; he likes to think of himself as a snapper first and an artist second.