Thirteen previously unseen photographs tell the story of how a notorious paparazzo befriended and bedded legendary star Brigitte Bardot over a weekend. From June 6-June 30 at Dadiani Fine Art catch “13 Unseen Photographs, London 1968” by Ray Bellisario, famously called “That Bloody Bellisario” by Prince Phillip for snapping the Queen in undignified form.The story goes (as Bellisario obliging tells) that the photographer had a new set of wheels that weekend, “So I grabbed her arm and I said, ‘Come with me,’ and she did! And she said, “Oh, this is fun, I’ve been kidnapped!”’ The two absconded from under the watchful eye of security guards and hoards of paparazzi and spent an afternoon holed up in a Bond Street pub before spending the night together at Bardot’s hotel. Bellisario calls her “as cuddly, as loveable, as hot as one could have imagined.”The set of 13 photographs are from the same singular weekend and show Bardot in a casual, relaxed light posing in the fateful pub and interacting with the city of London. Dressed in a green T-shirt and denim skirt, Bardot poses languidly for the camera in a rarely glimpsed side of the starlet.While slightly shorter in duration, the whole affair sounds reminiscent of “My Week with Marilyn” to us...“13 Unseen Photographs, London 1968” by Ray Bellisario is on view from June 6-June 30 at Dadiani Fine Art.
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