| David Bailey: Bailey's Matilda Contributor(s): Bailey, David (Photographer) |
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ISBN: 3958297498 ISBN-13: 9783958297494 Publisher: Steidl OUR PRICE: $58.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2025 This item may be ordered no more than 25 days prior to its publication date of January 21, 2025 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Photography | Individual Photographers - Monographs - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Landscapes - Travel | Australia & Oceania |
| Physical Information: 84 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 1980s Polaroids of small-town Australia: a rare take on the country's landscape and people from David Bailey David Bailey's (born 1938) love letter to Australia, Bailey's Matilda is no rosy portrait of "the lucky country," but a gritty yet affectionate vision of rural and small-town Australia in the early 1980s: black-and-white images of a dead cockatoo, kangaroo and sheep, of painted advertising for Queensland's beloved XXXX beer, of a gravestone and dead tree trunks against a lead sky. His human subjects are the Indigenous people of Australia, not the descendants of its white colonists. Bailey embraces all the flaws and accidents of his prints--their blurrings, smudges and stains--and enhances them with his own scribbles and crops, creating painterly results. In his own words it's all about chance: "This book should have been washed up in a bottle on the sea shore." |