About the Work
Debbie Harry reclining on a hotel-room couch at the Aladdin in Las Vegas in 1979, in a white dress and white heels, photographed by Roberta Bayley during the Parallel Lines world tour that carried Blondie from CBGB graduates to one of the most-watched pop acts in the world. Bayley's framing reads as the kind of behind-the-tour picture only her scene-insider access could produce.
Photograph by Roberta Bayley.
Cibachrome (Ilfochrome) print — sheet 17 × 21½ inches, image 16 × 20 inches — executed in 1979. An artist's proof, one of only two prints in existence: Bayley printed the negative a single time and never returned to it. 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.
