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.