A topless photo of Roman Polanski and his wife Sharon Tate has sold for more than $11k at auction in New York. Shot by London fashion photographer David Bailey in 1969, months before the pregnant Tate was murdered by Charles Manson followers, the photograph, fully revealed below, was given a pre-sale estimate of $8k to $12k by Christie’s. Read more »
While some photographers spend months, years, even lifetimes, shooting enough photos for a book, David Bailey has a quicker method: 130 photographs of art star Damien Hirst in one 8 minute photo shoot. The former skull bedazzler simply makes silly faces for the camera while Bailey snaps away. Resisting the look of “formulaic over-designed coffee-table publications,” the aptly titled 8 Minutes: Hirst & Bailey carries on it’s cost effective approach with a chalked cover, no text or title page. The new book published by Steidl cost $510 per hour.
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