1. David Royston Bailey was born on 2 January 1938 and is an English photographer and director, most widely known for his fashion photography and portraiture, and role in shaping the image of the Swinging Sixties.
21 Facts About David Bailey
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David Royston Bailey was born at Whipps Cross University Hospital, Leytonstone, to Herbert Bailey, a tailor's cutter, and his wife Gladys, a machinist.
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David Bailey attended a private school, Clark's College in Ilford, where he says they taught him less than the more basic council school.
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David Bailey left school on his fifteenth birthday, to become a copy boy at the Fleet Street offices of the Yorkshire Post.
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David Bailey raced through a series of dead end jobs, before his call up for national service in 1956, serving with the Royal Air Force in Singapore in 1957.
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David Bailey was demobbed in August 1958, and determined to pursue a career in photography, he bought a Canon rangefinder camera.
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David Bailey was delighted to be called to an interview with photographer John French.
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In 1959, David Bailey became a photographic assistant at the John French studio, and in May 1960, he was a photographer for John Cole's Studio Five, before being contracted as a fashion photographer for British Vogue magazine later that year.
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At Vogue David Bailey was shooting covers within months, and, at the height of his productivity, he shot 800 pages of Vogue editorial in one year.
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David Bailey was magic and the camera loved her too.
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David Bailey had the knack of having her hand in the right place, she knew where the light was, she was just a natural.
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David Bailey was hired in 1970 by Island Records' Chris Blackwell to shoot publicity photos of Cat Stevens for his upcoming album Tea for the Tillerman.
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David Bailey photographed album sleeve art for musicians including The Rolling Stones and Marianne Faithfull.
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David Bailey directed and produced the TV documentaries Beaton on Cecil Beaton, Visconti on Luchino Visconti, and Warhol on Andy Warhol.
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Cooper used David Bailey the following year to shoot for the group's chart topping Billion Dollar Babies album.
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In 1985, David Bailey was photographing stars at the Live Aid concert at Wembley Stadium.
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In October 2013, David Bailey took part in Art Wars at the Saatchi Gallery curated by Ben Moore.
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In October 2020 David Bailey's memoir Look Again in co-operation with author James Fox was published by Macmillan Books, a review on his life and work.
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David Bailey began working with fashion brand Jaeger in the late 1950s when Jean Muir landed the role of designer.
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David Bailey subsequently appeared in a series of UK TV commercials for the Olympus Trip camera.
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In 1975, David Bailey married American fashion model and writer Marie Helvin.