Sale 2458 - Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks, October 19, 2017

191 c DAVID BAILEY (1938- ) Supermodel Jean Shrimpton. Silver print, the image measuring 14 1 / 4 x11 1 / 4 inches (36.2x28.6 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Bailey’s signature, initials, and notation “Vogue vintage print,” in pencil, and a Condé Nast hand stamp, on verso. 1963 [4,000/6,000] Shrimpton was “discovered”by Bailey,with whom she enjoyed a very public four year romance.The first supermodel, and the highest-paid model of the 1960s, she was the face of “Swinging London.” Shrimpton later told a reporter for The Guardian ,“I never liked being photographed. I just happened to be good at it.”