Debbie Harry in Las Vegas, 1979

ROBERTA BAYLEY (B. 1950)
Debbie Harry in Las Vegas, 1979
signed, titled, numbered 5/25 and dated 'Deborah Harry Las Vegas 1979 Roberta Bayley 5/25' (on the reverse)
cibachrome print
20 x 16 inches
executed in 1979
this piece is number 5 from an edition of 25.

A cibachrome print of Debbie Harry photographed by Roberta Bayley in Las Vegas in 1979, the year Parallel Lines went stratospheric and "Heart of Glass" hit No. 1 in both the United States and the United Kingdom. The frame catches Harry in profile against the warm red wash of Vegas neon, lipstick in hand, mid-application — the punk-bred frontwoman about to dominate the next two years of mainstream radio refracted through the city whose neon-and-showgirl iconography had been pop culture's most reliable backdrop for decades.

Cibachromes are prized above all other prints for its optical luminosity, absolute colour saturation, and archival permanence: where conventional chromogenic prints build colour by forming new dyes, cibachrome achieves extraordinary depth by replacing existing ones. Because cibachromes have been discontinued, every surviving example is, by definition, the last of its kind