
This exhibtion focuses on David Bailey’s defining photographic ethos: uncompromising minimalism fused with visceral authenticity. Collectors will encounter works that emanate Bailey’s unflinching eye and technical mastery honed over six decades of redefining the medium with his lens. These works represent touchstones from a visionary who reshaped our view of modern London and visual culture.
David Bailey’s bold and striking style has made him one of the most renowned photographers of our time. With an artistic practice of over six decades, his photographic work spans genres - from fashion to portraiture, nudes, to still lifes, documentary, landscape, and reportage - and expands into painting and sculpture. Bailey’s photography discarded the formal structures of the medium and introduced fresh energy and a new way of looking that came to define a new generation.
Dellasposa was established in 2016 by gallerist and curator Jessica Phillimore and collector Julian Phillimore. In addition to its gallery and exhibition programme, Dellasposa offers bespoke art advisory.

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