David Bailey

David Bailey, CBE ( born January 2, 1938 in London ) is a British photographer.

Life

Bailey is a self-taught photographer. In 1957 he served in the Royal Air Force in the colony Singapore. In 1959 he became an assistant at the John French studio. He then got a contract as a fashion photographer at Vogue Magazine and worked from then mostly freelance.

Bailey has become primarily known as a chronicler of Swinging London and served in 1966 as a model for the figure of the star photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni's cult film Blow Up with the performer David Hemmings. He portrayed many people in the fashion, music and film scene as well as the British Royal Family. Numerous poster productions and Others with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones emerged during this period. Less well known are his documented on numerous trips abroad everyday scenes in which often nameless people are in their poor living environment at the center. Bailey received from Sandy Nairne two major exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery, 2009 and 2014. Bailey in 2001 was appointed Knight of the Order of the British Empire.

Bailey was married four times: 1960 with Rosemary Bramble, 1967 with the actress Catherine Deneuve ( the couple divorced in 1972 ), 1975 with Model Marie Helvin and 1986 with the actress Catherine Dyer. His well-known mid-1960s become super model Jean Shrimpton relation to 2012 was filmed by the television channel BBC Four in the miniseries We'll Take Manhattan, in Aneurin Barnard took over the role of Bailey.