{"product_id":"david-bailey-david-bailey-9783958297494","title":"David Bailey: Bailey's Matilda","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1980s Polaroids of small-town Australia: a rare take on the country's landscape and people from David Bailey\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Bailey's (born 1938) love letter to Australia, \u003ci\u003eBailey's Matilda\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Bailey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3958297498\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783958297494\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Steidl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/21\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"David Bailey","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44079471460607,"sku":"9783958297494","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2fe9606f-3a94-42cd-857c-68692181e0bd.jpg?v=1685481331","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/david-bailey-david-bailey-9783958297494","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}