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David Bailey. Art Edition No. 226–300 ‘Andy Warhol, 1965’
Edition of 75 (Copy No.295)
Limited SUMO Edition. Hardcover, numbered and signed by David Bailey, 50 x 70 cm, 47 kg (103.4 lb), 440 pages; with the signed print Andy Warhol, 1965, 51 x 61 cm, fiber-based silver gelatin on Ilford paper; with bookstand and four book jackets.

This SUMO-sized retrospective celebrates one of the world’s most influential photographers and the culmination of two years researching his archives. Gathering portraits from the 1950s to the 2010s, we discover some 300 subjects as varied as Nelson Mandela, the Beatles, the Queen, Salvador Dalí, Bill Gates, and Yves Saint Laurent, all printed big and bold, in Bailey’s signature style.

Art Edition (No. 226–300), with the print Andy Warhol, 1965. The book and print are both numbered and signed by David Bailey, accompanied by a bookstand designed by Marc Newson and a set of four book jackets featuring John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Jean Shrimpton, Mick Jagger, and Andy Warhol.

The David Bailey SUMO
Over 300 of the greatest portraits of our time, printed big and bold
In 1965, portrait and fashion photographer David Bailey released his groundbreaking book Box Of Pin-Ups, securing him as the hip tastemaker for 1960s London cool. With Mick Jagger his best man at his wedding to Catherine Deneuve and also being the inspiration for the classic movie Blow-Up. From the Swinging ’60s to the present day, Bailey has never stopped working and pushing the boundaries of his signature in-your-face portraiture and is widely regarded as one of the great postwar photographers.

This big book of Bailey is the culmination of an incredible career, the result of two years’ worth of research into his personal archives. Through penetrating pictures of the beautiful and the notorious, the idolized and the powerful, friends and family, writers, artists, and fellow photographers, Bailey presents a sweeping cultural history of the last 60 years. Featured subjects include Andy Warhol, Salvador Dalí, Kate Moss, Nelson Mandela, Francis Bacon, Zaha Hadid, the Rolling Stones, Jack Nicholson, Brigitte Bardot, Margaret Thatcher, and hundreds more.

As his friend Damien Hirst writes in the foreword: “He’s the master of his art and he’s created a mind-blowing visual language.” Additional text includes a three-part essay on Bailey’s portraiture by noted photography critic Francis Hodgson.

This Art Edition comes with a signed print of Andy Warhol, taken when the artist was at the peak of his career as New York’s ultimate cutting-edge tastemaker. Without his customary shades, Andy is practically bursting out of the tight frame, clearly not used to being exposed in this way. Their relationship continued into the 1970s, with Bailey making a British TV documentary on this Pop Art master.

Limited to a total of 3,000 numbered and signed copies, each edition comes with a bookstand designed by Marc Newson and a set of four book jackets featuring John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Jean Shrimpton, Mick Jagger, and Andy Warhol.

This Art Edition (No. 226–300) comes with the signed print Andy Warhol, 1965.

Also available as three other Art Editions of 75 copies each, with alternative signed prints, and as a signed Collector’s Edition of 2,700 copies (No. 301–3,000).

Limited SUMO Edition. Hardcover, numbered and signed by David Bailey, 50 x 70 cm, 47 kg (103.4 lb), 440 pages; with the signed print Andy Warhol, 1965, 51 x 61 cm, fiber-based silver gelatin on Ilford paper; with bookstand and four book jackets
ISBN 978-3-8365-6790-9
Edition: English
The picture frame seen here is for display purposes only; the print is sold unframed.

Bookstand Measurements

Distance between each leg: 86 cm (34 in.)
Platform: 78 x 62.5 cm (31 x 27 in.)
Height when positioned horizontally: 90 cm (35 in.)
Height when in display position: back 98 cm (39 in.), front 83 cm (33 in.)