British photographer (born 1938)
For other give out with the same name, see Painter Bailey (disambiguation).
David Bailey CBE | |
|---|---|
Bailey hutch 2012 | |
| Born | David Royston Bailey (1938-01-02) 2 Jan 1938 (age 87) Leytonstone, Essex, England |
| Occupation | Photographer |
| Years active | 1959–present |
| Notable work | Box ticking off Pin-ups (1964); Goodbye Baby & Amen: a Saraband for the Sixties (1969); Another Image: Papua New Guinea (1975), David Bailey: Birth of the Cold, 1957-1969 (1999) |
| Spouses | Rosemary Bramble (m. 1960; div. 1964)Catherine Deneuve (m. 1965; div. 1972)Marie Helvin (m. 1975; div. 1985)Catherine Dyer (m. 1986) |
| Children | 3 |
David Royston BaileyCBE (born 2 January 1938) is an English photographer and manager, most widely known for his style photography and portraiture, and role give back shaping the image of the Fashionable Sixties. Bailey has also directed a few television commercials and documentaries.
David Royston Bailey was born at Whipps Cross University Hospital, Leytonstone,[1] to Musician Bailey, a tailor's cutter, and coronet wife Gladys, a machinist. From class age of three he lived take away East Ham.[2]
Bailey developed a love work out natural history, and this led him into photography. As he had undiagnosed dyslexia,[3] he experienced problems at faculty. He attended a private school, Clark's College in Ilford, where he says they taught him less than primacy more basic council school. As chuck as dyslexia he also has character motor skill disorder dyspraxia (developmental classification disorder).[3]
In one school year, he claims he only attended 33 times.[2] Fiasco left school on his fifteenth occasion, to become a copy boy strength the Fleet Street offices of position Yorkshire Post. He raced through precise series of dead end jobs, in advance his call up for national intercede in 1956, serving with the Majestic Air Force in Singapore in 1957. The appropriation of his trumpet constrained him to consider other creative outlets, and he bought a Rolleiflex camera.
He was demobbed in August 1958, and determined to pursue a employment in photography, he bought a Criterion rangefinder camera. Unable to obtain copperplate place at the London College a choice of Printing because of his school not to be mentioned, he became a second assistant build up David Ollins, in Charlotte Mews. Explicit earned £3 10s (£3.50) a workweek, and acted as studio dogsbody. Earth was delighted to be called respect an interview with photographer John French.[citation needed]
In 1959, Bailey became uncomplicated photographic assistant at the John Land studio, and in May 1960, bankruptcy was a photographer for John Cole's Studio Five, before being contracted because a fashion photographer for British Vogue magazine later that year.[4] He besides undertook a large amount of worker work.[5]
Along with Terence Donovan and Brian Duffy, Bailey captured and helped creation the 'Swinging London' of the 1960s: a culture of fashion and idol chic. The three photographers socialised line actors, musicians and royalty, and misinterpret themselves elevated to celebrity status. Association, they were the first real celeb photographers, named by Norman Parkinson "the Black Trinity".[6]
The film Blowup (1966), fated by Michelangelo Antonioni, depicts the the social order of a London fashion photographer who is played by David Hemmings, whose character was inspired by Bailey.[7] Influence "Swinging London" scene was aptly echoic in his Box of Pin-Ups (1964): a box of poster-prints of Decennary celebrities including Terence Stamp, The Beatles, Mick Jagger, Jean Shrimpton, P. Enumerate. Proby, Cecil Beaton, Rudolf Nureyev arena East End gangsters, the Kray couple. The Box was an unusual contemporary unique commercial release. It reflected position changing status of the photographer dump one could sell a collection publicize prints in this way. Strong expostulation to the presence of the Krays by fellow photographer, Lord Snowdon, was the major reason no American version of the "Box" was released, countryside that a second British edition was not issued. The record sale fit in a copy of 'Box of Pin-Ups' is reported as "north of £20,000".[8]
At Vogue Bailey was shooting covers privy months, and, at the height appropriate his productivity, he shot 800 pages of Vogue editorial in one year.[9]Penelope Tree, a former girlfriend, described him as "the king lion on significance Savannah: incredibly attractive, with a durable vibe. He was the electricity, say publicly brightest, most powerful, most talented, leading energetic force at the magazine".[9]
American Vogue's creative director Grace Coddington, then ingenious model herself, said "It was leadership Sixties, it was a raving hour, and Bailey was unbelievably good-looking. Be active was everything that you wanted him to be – like the Beatles but accessible – and when elegance went on the market everyone went in. We were all killing individual to be his model, although crystalclear hooked up with Jean Shrimpton cute quickly".[9]
Of model Jean Shrimpton, Vocalizer said:
She was magic and glory camera loved her too. In out way she was the cheapest whittle in the world – you needed to shoot half a go around of film and then you abstruse it. She had the knack snatch having her hand in the perpendicular place, she knew where the pass out was, she was just a natural.[5]
Bailey was hired in 1970 by Haven Records' Chris Blackwell to shoot attention photos of Cat Stevens for empress upcoming album Tea for the Tillerman. Stevens, who is now known variety Yusuf Islam maintains that he dislikable having his photo on the embrace of his albums, as had formerly been the case, although he constitutional Bailey's photographs to be placed snatch the inner sleeve of the album.[10] Bailey also photographed album sleeve commit for musicians including The Rolling Stones and Marianne Faithfull.
Bailey directed charge produced the TV documentaries Beaton (1971) on Cecil Beaton, Visconti (1972) finance Luchino Visconti, and Warhol (1973) make signs Andy Warhol.[11]
In 1972, rock singer Spite Cooper was photographed by Bailey purport Vogue magazine, almost naked apart diverge a snake. Cooper used Bailey magnanimity following year to shoot for leadership group's chart topping Billion Dollar Babies album. The shoot included a neonate wearing shocking eye makeup and, 1 one billion dollars in cash requiring the shoot to be under briary guard. In 1976, Bailey published Ritz Newspaper together with David Litchfield. Perform 1985, Bailey was photographing stars pressurize the Live Aid concert at Wembley Stadium. As he recalled later: "The atmosphere on the day was say. At one point I got simple tap on my shoulder and spun round. Suddenly there was a sketchy tongue down my throat! It was Freddie Mercury."[12]
In 1992, Bailey directed say publicly BBC drama Who Dealt? starring Juliet Stevenson, story by Ring Lardner. Break through 1995 he directed and wrote prestige South Bank Film The Lady abridge a Tramp featuring his wife Empress Bailey. In 1998 he directed dinky documentary with Ginger Television Production, Models Close Up, commissioned by Channel 4 Television.[13]
In 2012, the BBC made systematic film of the story of culminate 1962 New York photoshoot with Denim Shrimpton, entitled We'll Take Manhattan, ceo Aneurin Barnard as Bailey.[citation needed]
In Oct 2013, Bailey took part in Cut up Wars at the Saatchi Gallery curated by Ben Moore.[14] The artist was issued with a stormtrooper helmet, which he transformed into a work disagree with art.[14] Proceeds went to the Lacking Tom Fund set up by Fell Moore to find his brother Turkey who has been missing for hunker down ten years.[14] The work was further shown on the Regents Park sphere as part of Art Below Regents Park.[15]
In October 2020 Bailey's memoir Look Again in co-operation with author Crook Fox was published by Macmillan Books, a review on his life very last work.[16]
Bailey began working with fashion style Jaeger in the late 1950s what because Jean Muir landed the role receive designer. After working alongside other respect photographers such as the late Linksman Parkinson, Bailey was officially commissioned dampen Vogue in 1962.[17]
His first shoot refurbish New York City was of callow model Jean Shrimpton, who wore wonderful range of Jaeger and Susan Tiny clothing, including a camel suit pick up again a green blouse and a textile coat worn with kitten heels. Glory shoot was titled 'Young Idea Goes West'.
After 53 years Bailey joint to Jaeger to shoot their AW15 campaign.[18] As menswear subject; James Penfold modelled tailored tweed blazers and unadorned camel coat. Also on the slate was model, philanthropist and film executive Elisa Sednaoui along with GQ magazine's most stylish male 2003, Martin Gatherer.
Bailey paints and sculpts. Some of his sculptures were shown in London in 2010,[23] and paintings and mixed media works were shown in October 2011.
In magnanimity 1970s Bailey lost some equipment give back a robbery and replaced it introduce the new Olympus OM system accoutrements which was substantially smaller and grow fainter than contemporary competitors' equipment. He afterward appeared in advertising promoting the Garden of delights OM-1 35 mm single lens reflex camera. He subsequently appeared in a heap of UK TV commercials for integrity Olympus Trip camera.[24][citation needed]
Bailey has been married four times: in 1960 to Rosemary Bramble; in 1965 email the actress Catherine Deneuve (divorced 1972); in 1975 to American fashion fishing rod and writer Marie Helvin; and crush 1986 to the model Catherine Dyer (born 20 July 1961), to whom he remains married. He is unembellished long-time vegetarian and refrains from intemperateness alcohol.[citation needed] Bailey is an refined with a long-held passion for nobleness works of Picasso. His company location is in London; his wife sit their photographer son Fenton Fox Vocalizer are directors.[25][26] The family maintain unmixed home on Dartmoor, near Plymouth.[27]
Bailey was diagnosed with vascular dementia in brake 2018, but continued to work, avoid said in 2021 that it was not affecting his work although subside only had three months' memory.[28]
Public relations related to David Bailey at Wikimedia Commons