Man who captured Krays enjoys top bill
TWO contrasting exhibitions – one featuring the work of photographer David Bailey, the other showing images from the First World War – are to open at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
The Bailey exhibition, beginning on 6 February, will celebrate 50 years of work from the photographer who became as famous as the society figures and celebrities he captured on film.
The First World War’s 100th anniversary is being marked by an exhibition entitled The Great War in Portraits which opens on 27 February.
The London gallery is displaying 250 Bailey works chosen by the photographer, now aged 75, whose four wives have included French actress Catherine Deneuve and model Marie helvin.
Some of Bailey’s best-known works have featured the east end criminals the Kray twins, model and former girlfriend Jean Shrimpton, actor Terence Stamp, The Beatles, Mick Jagger and model Kate Moss.
This will be one of the gallery’s largest photography exhibitions, with the portraits occupying most of the ground floor.
The Great War exhibition looks at the different roles, experiences and, ultimately, destinies of those caught up in the fouryear conflict.
Items on display include a press photograph of Gavrilo Princip, the 19-year-old assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose death in Sarajevo in the summer of 1914 was the incident that sparked the war.
Visitors will also see portraits of the war commanders.