DAVID BAILEY: 8 MINUTES, HIRST AND BAILEY

The premise of this book couldn't be simpler: 130 photographs of DamienHirst taken by David Bailey during a single shoot lasting eight minutes.Each pose is spontaneous and determined not by Bailey but by Hirst, whomocks the camera with his tongue poked out, mouth open wide and handspulling at his cheeks. These photos are humble and unrehearsed, and socontinue the sprit of Bailey's Democracy in which Bailey photographed across section of naked subjects, shunning issues of composition, lightingand digital manipulation. Renouncing text and even a title page, 8 Minutesresists formulaic over-designed coffee-table publications. Bailey's roguishmessage: what you see is what you get.? 264 pages, 133 colour plates? 26 cm x 33 cm? Clothbound hardcover? Steidl? ISBN: 978-3-86521-864-3? Publication date: June 2009