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Story by Jack Foley
SIX
newly-acquired prints by David Bailey are the focus of a fascinating display
at the National Portrait Gallery, inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni's
1966 cult classic film Blow Up, which starred David Hemmings as a photographer
in 'Swinging Sixties' London.
Bailey's iconic portraits of Michael Caine, Mick Jagger (pictured), Jean Shrimpton,
Jane Birkin, Kenneth Tynan and Robert Fraser with Jann Haworth are shown alongside
20 other works by leading photographers, focusing on the icons of Sixties
film, fashion and pop music in the Balcony Gallery until May 2003.
Several of the stars of Blow-Up are featured in the display, includin