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Another view of David Bailey
JOHN GREEN recommends a revelatory exhibition which sheds light on a very different aspect of photographer David Bailey’s work
If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
NW1: Photographs by David Bailey at the Heni Gallery, London W1
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FOR many, photographer David Bailey is indelibly connected with London’s “swinging ’60s,” fashion shoots and his canonisation in Michelangelo Antonioni’s classic film Blow-Up.
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