A lone figure lying on a deserted beach with islands on the horizon, plate from David Bailey’s Trouble and Strife.
A lone figure lying on a deserted beach with islands on the horizon, plate from David Bailey’s Trouble and Strife.
A lone figure lying on a deserted beach with islands on the horizon, plate from David Bailey’s Trouble and Strife.
A lone figure lying on a deserted beach with islands on the horizon, plate from David Bailey’s Trouble and Strife.
A lone figure lying on a deserted beach with islands on the horizon, plate from David Bailey’s Trouble and Strife.

DAVID BAILEY — TROUBLE AND STRIFE (1980), 1981 REPRINT

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Published by: Thames and Hudson, London, 1980 (this copy: reprint, 1981)
Year: 1981 (reprint)
Dimensions: 27.3 × 21.3 cm
Language: English
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages, with 81 duotone illustrations
ISBN: 0-500-27208-1
Edition: Second printing (reprinted 1981)
Condition: Fine — exceptionally well preserved, with no visible imperfections, damage, or signs of wear. The cover, binding, and interior pages remain in excellent condition.

Trouble and Strife — Cockney rhyming slang for “wife” — is David Bailey's photographic portrait of Marie Helvin, his wife at the time. Originally published by Thames and Hudson in 1980, the book brings together 81 duotone photographs, with a preface by Jacques Henri Lartigue and an introduction by the artist Brian Clarke.

The book moves between fashion, portraiture, and intimacy, turning Bailey's camera toward the person closest to him. Rather than presenting Helvin solely through the conventions of fashion photography, Bailey constructs a sustained photographic portrait in which studio images, nudes, and more personal observations create an ambiguous space between public persona and private life.

Bailey's characteristic graphic economy is central to the book: strong blacks, frontal compositions, direct gazes, and tightly controlled framing give the photographs their distinctive tension. The resulting sequence carries the visual language that had made Bailey one of the defining photographers of Swinging London into a more intimate and personal context.

Lartigue's preface places the publication within a longer photographic tradition in which women close to the photographer become recurring and deeply personal subjects. Brian Clarke's introduction further situates the work within Bailey's broader artistic practice, connecting his photographic portraiture with his interest in image-making, personality, and visual culture.

Printed and bound in the United States, Trouble and Strife is an important document of Bailey's work at the intersection of fashion, portraiture, and autobiography, as well as a particularly direct record of his relationship with Marie Helvin.

Contains nude photography.

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