David Bailey

Bailey is a well known English photographer who still works today. He has worked with many famous faces and has a very unique style. Whenever I see one of his images I can tell straight away that he took it. He works with black and white photography which helps create his own personal style. He started his professional career in 1959, working as a photographer’s assistant. Along with fellow photographers and friend Brian Duffy and Terence Donovan he helped create the swinging 60’s, a decade of celebrity and high fashion. They themselves became celebrities. He has worked a lot with fashion photography as well as record album covers, television commercials and documentaries.

As you can see from the images above, his portraits are very hard hitting and he always confronts his subjects head on. Bailey quotes "The pictures I take are simple and direct and about the person I'm photographing and not about me." This style has become very popular and is always something I think about when shooting my own portrait images.
After watching a documentary on him and his fellow photography peers you realise what an unusual and somewhat grumpy character he is! However his work is inspiring and almost perfect. He has become such a well known name and celebrity in his own right.

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