Bailey’s Stardust is a landmark exhibition of portraits by one of the world’s most distinguished and distinctive photographers, David Bailey.  Over 250 images, personally selected and printed by Bailey, are on view at the National Portrait Gallery until June 1, 2014. At Bailey’s specific request, Darbyshire made dark stained American black walnut frames for all works in the show, lending a sharp, classic look. The exhibition offers an unmissable opportunity to experience the work of one of the world’s greatest image-makers.

Bailey’s Stardust is presented thematically across a series of contrasting rooms and illustrates the extraordinary range of subjects he has captured throughout his career: actors, writers, musicians, filmmakers, designers, models, artists and people encountered on his travels; many of them famous, some anonymous, all of them unforgettable.

Rooms are devoted to Bailey’s time in East Africa, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Delhi and the Naga Hills, as well as icons from the worlds of fashion and the arts, striking portraits of the Rolling Stones and Catherine Bailey and people of the East End of London.

David Bailey has made an outstanding contribution to photography and the visual arts, creating consistently imaginative and thought-provoking portraits. As well as new work, this landmark exhibition includes a wide variety of Bailey’s photographs from a career that has spanned more than half a century.

To see more photographic works on view in ‘Bailey’s Stardust’: National Portrait Gallery