Author Description

On a major assignment for Vogue in January 1970, David Bailey photographed fashion against the dramatic mountain backdrops of Central Turkey. Throughout the decade that followed, he determined to photograph peoples and places across the world that fascinated him. His incisive documents of India, Peru, Japan, Haiti, Brazil and New Guinea, many of them previously unpublished, culminate at the end of the decade in the most political of his reportages - haunting images of the Vietnamese boat people. Alongside these photographs, Locations presents the best of Bailey's 1970s fashion shoots, many of the images of this age of the "glamour revival" featuring his favorite models of the time, Marie Helvin, Penelope Tree and Anjelica Huston. During this era Bailey also continued as a master of the art of portraiture, his subjects ranging from Salvador Dali and Mick Jagger to Margaret Thatcher and Mother Teresa. His acclaimed television documentaries on Andy Warhol, Cecil Beaton and Luchino Visconti provided yet more opportunities for compelling stills.