Close-up of Debbie Harry, an enlarged Polaroid printed as a cibachrome by Roberta Bayley, Boston 1978.
Verso of the cibachrome, double-signed, titled and dated A.P. by Roberta Bayley, Boston 1978.

Debbie Harry, Boston, 1978 — Original Cibachrome Print (Enlarged Polaroid)

Blondie, Debbie Harry
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A cibachrome print of an enlarged Polaroid of Debbie Harry, photographed by Roberta Bayley in Boston in 1978 — the year Blondie released Parallel Lines and crossed from CBGB cult act to one of the most-watched groups in the world. A close-up of Harry with blonde hair, blue eye-shadow and red lips, captioned in Bayley's hand and printed in the 1990s. The image served as the cover of Bayley's book Blondie Unseen 1976–1980.

Photograph by Roberta Bayley.

Cibachrome (Ilfochrome) print, 19 × 23⅜ inches, executed in 1978. One of three artist's proofs, double-signed, titled and dated by the artist on the reverse. Long discontinued, the Cibachrome process leaves every surviving example among the last of its kind.

From the personal archive of Roberta Bayley. Price on request.

Roberta Bayley
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Roberta Bayley

One of the defining photographers of the New York punk movement, Roberta Bayley created some of the most iconic images of CBGB, the Ramones, Blondie, Patti Smith and the downtown music scene of the 1970s.

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