David Bailey: Bailey's Matilda

Bailey's Matilda is David Bailey's love letter to Australia, but in typical Bailey fashion it's not what you'd expect. This 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3958297498
• ISBN13: 9783958297494
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Steidl
• Length: 84 Pages