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Photographs at the very beginning of London's Swinging 60's

nickyskye — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:29:00 -0800

Forty years ago, Swinging London was yet to swing. Everything was in black and white and, in class-bound Britain, fashion photographers were trades-men – polite, smart, seen but not heard. A new breed of snappers changed all that – Terry O’Neill, Brian Duffy, David Bailey and Terence Donovan. Bailey and Donovan started their careers in the West End studio of the doyen of fashion photographers – John French. Celebrated East London photographers at that time. Terry O’Neill, about. Brian Duffy, a well known photograph of his, David Bowie. Terence Donovan David Bailey. A bit about him and his girlfriend, Jean Shrimpton, a popular model of the day. The Counterfeit Body: Fashion Photography and the Deceptions of Femininity, Sexuality, Authenticity and Self in the 1950s, 60s and 70s The Age of Sex: Bad Boys and the Sexualized Body in 1960s Fashion Photography John French at the Victoria & Albert Museum

The mysterious Kid Bailey

flapjax at midnite — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:34:33 -0800

Kid Bailey was a Mississippi Delta bluesman blessed with the kind of slightly gravel-tinged voice that emanates authority. His recording career was a very short one, however, consisting of precisely one day, and yielding precisely two songs. Very little is known about Bailey himself, and the identity of the 2nd accompanying guitarist on his only known recording remains a mystery, though there has been some some speculation. I've been doing a little speculating myself, regarding some of Bailey's lyrics, and any of you blues linguists who might want to help fill in the blanks, please see the [more inside]. Can you help to fill in the blanks? Or suggest any corrections for words I might be hearing wrong? Mississippi Bottom Blues Way down in Mississippi, where I was bred and born _____________ be my native home _________ and my hair is turning gray _________ hair is turning gray I know it would break her heart to find I was barrelhoused in this way I'm going where the water drinks like wine I'm going where the water drinks like wine Where I can be drunk down and staggering all the time Ain't but the one thing lordy worries my mind Ain't but the one thing lordy worries my mind That's a house full of women _________ (lord and none of 'em mine)? My baby passed me and she never said a word And my baby passed me and she never said a word Nothing I had did but ______ she had heard (something?) Rowdy Blues Ain't gonna marry, (no) need to settle down I'm gonna stay right here til I tear this barrelhouse down I love you baby, and I tell the world I do And I love you baby, and I tell the world I do I don't love nobody in this whole round world but you Ain't no use of weeping, ain't no need to cry Ain't no use of weeping, ain't no need to cry You've got a home just long as I've got mine Is you ever been lucky now woke up cold and ______ I was _______ nothing but a monkey man And I love you baby, you so nice and brown And I love you baby, you so nice and brown Cause you put up _______ so it won't come down Did you get that letter now, mailed in your back yard Did you get that letter now, mailed in your back yard Said what it said but you ______friend have to part

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kenko — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 11:04:57 -0800

Derek Bailey has died. Here's an interview with him from 2001, and another about playing in Japan. Bailey was considered by many to be the father of free improvisation, beginning with his band Joseph Holbrooke, with Tony Oxley and Gavin Bryars, and, in addition to his voluminous discography, is the author of a book on the nature of improvisation.

Bailey and Rankin

Raindog — Sun, 11 May 2003 02:18:59 -0800

Bailey + Rankin Down Under - Exhibition now showing in London. Beautiful? Shocking? Most striking is the contrast created between related subject matter by two of the world's top photographers. NSFW (unless you work in either a gynaecologists or a top model agency).