Often described as 'the man who shot the sixties', Bailey is best known for his portrait work spanning artists from all cultural forms as well as royalty. His ‘Box of Pin-Ups’, published in 1965 is now seen as defining of the era and having shaped the future of photography. His rarely seen and very personal work ‘Bailey's East End’ represents a strong analogy for the radical cultural and social changes that took place in the decade.
Over five decades in a sherry butt, this whisky is an elegant balance of sweetness and intriguing complexity. It is a delicious confection of fruit, spices and dark chocolate but carrying the patina of age that only extremely rare and ancient whiskies possess.
The East End has always been a bellwether for London’s fortunes. During the 1960s the area was a microcosm for structural and social changes. This laid the foundations for the exciting regeneration of a modern, globally renowned and vibrant area of London, that now plays host to the Olympic Stadium and Canary Wharf.
The streets of East London, as depicted by David Bailey, are gone forever, just as Ladyburn is lost
in the mists of time. Both symbols of times past in a decade that through its vibrancy helped give birth to
an auspicious future.
“It’s very much a story of the whisky industry going through fundamental transformation in the 60s and 70s. The old whisky business begins to change to the modern whisky industry across the 60s and 70s and Ladyburn exists as a bridge by which we can look at that period and really understand it properly.”