Goodbye Baby & Amen

In an obscure online interview Bailey said of his photobooks that: “Well, there’s only about five good ones. I like.” and Goodbye Baby.” was one of them”. A beautiful book that distills the spirit of the sixties. The blurb accompanying the nude, from the waist up, double-spread of Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate is particularly illuminating: The imperfect couple.They became part of the Anti-Establishment establishment. They became rich but never regal. They pursued the panaceas of the era from pot to LSD and knew the score. Exactly. Polanski took three trips; two of them bad. “I have no desire to try it again, I wanted to know what it was all about and I know it damn well now.” Says his wife: “It opened the world to me; I was like a very tight knot, too embarrassed to speak even. But I could never touch it again now, I think it would destroy me.