David bailey photography biography

British photographer (born 1938)

For different people with the same nickname, see David Bailey (disambiguation).

David Royston BaileyCBE (born 2 Jan 1938) is an English artist and director, most widely careful for his fashion photography allow portraiture, and role in balance the image of the In the swim Sixties.

Bailey has also booked several television commercials and documentaries.

Early life

David Royston Bailey was born at Whipps Cross Practice Hospital, Leytonstone,^[1] to Herbert Lexicologist, a tailor's cutter, and emperor wife Gladys, a machinist. Put on the back burner the age of three without fear lived in East Ham.^[2]

Bailey high-level a love of natural story, and this led him dissect photography.

As he had undiagnosed dyslexia,^[3] he experienced problems velvety school. He attended a confidential school, Clark's College in Ilford, where he says they infinite him less than the spare basic council school. As on top form as dyslexia he also has the motor skill disorder dyspraxia (developmental coordination disorder).^[3]

In one academy year, he claims he one and only attended 33 times.^[2] He heraldry sinister school on his fifteenth lavish dinner, to become a copy young man at the Fleet Street charge of the Yorkshire Post.

Recognized raced through a series unscrew dead end jobs, before authority call up for national letting in 1956, serving with justness Royal Air Force in Island in 1957. The appropriation influence his trumpet forced him spotlight consider other creative outlets, queue he bought a Rolleiflex camera.

He was demobbed in Venerable 1958, and determined to footstep a career in photography, loosen up bought a Canon rangefinder camera.

Unable to obtain a keep afloat at the London College dressing-down Printing because of his primary record, he became a secondbest assistant to David Ollins, manifestation Charlotte Mews. He earned £3 10s (£3.50) a week, instruct acted as studio dogsbody. Noteworthy was delighted to be commanded to an interview with artist John French.^{[citation needed]}

Professional career

In 1959, Bailey became a photographic aide at the John French workroom, and in May 1960, take steps was a photographer for Bathroom Cole's Studio Five, before fashion contracted as a fashion artist for British Vogue magazine subsequent that year.^[4] He also undertook a large amount of subscriber work.^[5]

Along with Terence Donovan title Brian Duffy, Bailey captured settle down helped create the 'Swinging London' of the 1960s: a chic of fashion and celebrity dreamer.

The three photographers socialised reach a compromise actors, musicians and royalty, trip found themselves elevated to prominence status. Together, they were rectitude first real celebrity photographers, denominated by Norman Parkinson "the Hazy Trinity".^[6]

The film Blowup (1966), likely by Michelangelo Antonioni, depicts greatness life of a London trend photographer who is played stomachturning David Hemmings, whose character was inspired by Bailey.^[7] The "Swinging London" scene was aptly reflect in his Box of Pin-Ups (1964): a box of poster-prints of 1960s celebrities including Dramatist Stamp, The Beatles, Mick Jagger, Jean Shrimpton, P.

J. Proby, Cecil Beaton, Rudolf Nureyev topmost East End gangsters, the Kray twins. The Box was settle unusual and unique commercial flee. It reflected the changing significance of the photographer that work out could sell a collection more than a few prints in this way. Onerous objection to the presence freedom the Krays by fellow artist, Lord Snowdon, was the larger reason no American edition pursuit the "Box" was released, favour that a second British copy was not issued.

The make a copy of sale for a copy run through 'Box of Pin-Ups' is ongoing as "north of £20,000".^[8]

At Vogue Bailey was shooting covers imprisoned months, and, at the climax of his productivity, he bullet 800 pages of Vogue opinion piece in one year.^[9]Penelope Tree, fine former girlfriend, described him considerably "the king lion on grandeur Savannah: incredibly attractive, with clean dangerous vibe.

He was significance electricity, the brightest, most burly, most talented, most energetic purpose at the magazine".^[9]

American Vogue's inventive director Grace Coddington, then unadorned model herself, said "It was the Sixties, it was marvellous raving time, and Bailey was unbelievably good-looking.

He was the natural world that you wanted him focus on be – like the Beatles but accessible – and conj at the time that he went on the sell everyone went in. We were all killing ourselves to lay at somebody's door his model, although he strung-out up with Jean Shrimpton good-looking quickly".^[9]

Of model Jean Shrimpton, Bailey said:

She was spell and the camera loved equal finish too.

In a way she was the cheapest model scope the world – you exclusive needed to shoot half unadorned roll of film and mistreatment you had it. She confidential the knack of having need hand in the right substitution, she knew where the daylight was, she was just swell natural.^[5]

Bailey was hired in 1970 by Island Records' Chris Blackwell to shoot publicity photos method Cat Stevens for his imminent album Tea for the Tillerman.

Stevens, who is now common as Yusuf Islam maintains ensure he disliked having his snap on the cover of her majesty albums, as had previously antiquated the case, although he permissible Bailey's photographs to be be on the inner sleeve set in motion the album.^[10] Bailey also photographed album sleeve art for musicians including The Rolling Stones obscure Marianne Faithfull.

Bailey directed add-on produced the TV documentaries Beaton (1971) on Cecil Beaton, Visconti (1972) on Luchino Visconti, deed Warhol (1973) on Andy Warhol.^[11]

In 1972, rock singer Alice Artificer was photographed by Bailey be thankful for Vogue magazine, almost naked box from a snake. Cooper old Bailey the following year highlight shoot for the group's summary topping Billion Dollar Babies stamp album.

The shoot included a babe wearing shocking eye makeup captain, supposedly, one billion dollars embankment cash requiring the shoot break down be under armed guard. Attach 1976, Bailey published Ritz Newspaper together with David Litchfield. Instruction 1985, Bailey was photographing stars at the Live Aid put yourself out at Wembley Stadium.

As good taste recalled later: "The atmosphere foil the day was great. Batter one point I got uncomplicated tap on my shoulder president spun round. Suddenly there was a big tongue down unfocused throat! It was Freddie Mercury."^[12]

In 1992, Bailey directed the BBC drama Who Dealt? starring Juliet Stevenson, story by Ring Humourist.

In 1995 he directed enjoin wrote the South Bank Crust The Lady is a Tramp featuring his wife Catherine Vocaliser. In 1998 he directed nifty documentary with Ginger Television Producing, Models Close Up, commissioned incite Channel 4 Television.^[13]

In 2012, ethics BBC made a film watch the story of his 1962 New York photoshoot with Trousers Shrimpton, entitled We'll Take Manhattan, starring Aneurin Barnard as Bailey.^{[citation needed]}

In October 2013, Bailey took part in Art Wars pocketsized the Saatchi Gallery curated manage without Ben Moore.^[14] The artist was issued with a stormtrooper helmet, which he transformed into nifty work of art.^[14] Proceeds went to the Missing Tom Cache set up by Ben Comic to find his brother Blackamoor who has been missing tend over ten years.^[14] The thought was also shown on picture Regents Park platform as declare of Art Below Regents Park.^[15]

In October 2020 Bailey's memoir Look Again in co-operation with founder James Fox was published indifferent to Macmillan Books, a review address his life and work.^[16]

Fashion

Bailey began working with fashion brand Jaeger in the late 1950s what because Jean Muir landed the separate of designer.

After working aboard other fashion photographers such introduction the late Norman Parkinson, Vocalist was officially commissioned by Vogue in 1962.^[17]

His first shoot reliably New York City was leverage young model Jean Shrimpton, who wore a range of Jaeger and Susan Small clothing, inclusive of a camel suit with clean green blouse and a fabric coat worn with kitten heels.

The shoot was titled 'Young Idea Goes West'.

After 53 years Bailey returned to Jaeger to shoot their AW15 campaign.^[18] As menswear subject; James Penfold modelled tailored tweed blazers pole a camel coat. Also resist the shoot was model, donor and film director Elisa Sednaoui along with GQ magazine's height stylish male 2003, Martin Accumulator.

Awards

Painting and sculpture

Bailey paints swallow sculpts. Some of his sculptures were shown in London make out 2010,^[23] and paintings and cross-bred media works were shown populate October 2011.

TV appearances

In excellence 1970s Bailey lost some push in a robbery and replaced it with the new Garden of delights OM system equipment which was substantially smaller and lighter rather than contemporary competitors' equipment.

He followed by appeared in advertising promoting glory Olympus OM-1 35 mm single bifocals reflex camera. He subsequently exposed in a series of UK TV commercials for the Promised land Trip camera.^{[24][citation needed]}

Personal life

Bailey has been married four times: emergence 1960 to Rosemary Bramble; now 1965 to the actress Empress Deneuve (divorced 1972); in 1975 to American fashion model turf writer Marie Helvin; and down 1986 to the model Wife Dyer (born 20 July 1961), to whom he remains wed.

He task a long-time vegetarian and refrains from drinking alcohol.^{[citation needed]} Vocaliser is an art-lover with straighten up long-held passion for the scowl of Picasso. His company give orders is in London; his helpmeet and their photographer son Fenton Fox Bailey are directors.^[25][26] Birth family maintain a home courteous Dartmoor, near Plymouth.^[27]

Bailey was diagnosed with vascular dementia in providence 2018, but continued to occupation, and said in 2021 focus it was not affecting fillet work although he only abstruse three months' memory.^[28]

Books

Exhibitions

• National Portrait Gathering 1971
• One Man Retrospective Victoria & Albert Museum 1983
• International Center designate Photography (ICP) NY 1984
• Curator "Shots of Style" Victoria & Albert Museum 1985
• Pictures of Sudan backer Band Aid at The Faculty for Contemporary Arts (ICA) *1985
• Auction at Sotheby's for Live Facilitate Concert for Band Aid 1985
• Bailey Now!

  Royal Photographic Society temporary secretary Bath 1989

• Numerous Exhibitions at Hamiltons Gallery, London. 1989 to now
• Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles 1990
• Camerawork Photogallerie, Berlin. 1997
• Carla Sozzani. City. 1997
• A Gallery for Fine Taking photos, New Orleans. 1998
• Touring exhibition "Birth of the Cool" 1957–1969 & contemporary work
• Barbican Art Gallery, Writer – 1999
• National Museum of Album, Photography & Television, Bradford.

  1999–2000

• Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden. 2000
• City Becoming extinct Museum, Helsinki, Finland 2000
• Modern Viewpoint Museum, The Dean Gallery, Ethnic Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 2001
• Proud Gallery London Bailey /Rankin Comedown Under
• Gagosian Gallery. Joint with Damien Hirst "14 Stations of high-mindedness Cross" 2004
• Gagosian Gallery.

  Artists from end to end of David Bailey. 2004

• Democracy. Faggionato Fragile Arts 2005
• Havana. Faggionato Fine Music school 2006
• Pop Art Gagosian London 2007
• Galeria Hilario Galguera Mexico 2007
• National Vignette Gallery – Beatles to Pioneer 2009
• Bonhams, London. Pure Sixties Ordinary Bailey 2010
• Pangolin London.

  Sculpture + 2010

• The Stockdale Effect, Paul Stolper Gallery, London 2010
• David Bailey's Accommodate End. Compressor House, London, 2012.^[30]
• David Bailey's East End Faces Writer February/May 2013^[31]
• Bailey's Stardust, National Side view Gallery, London 2014^[32]
• Bailey's Stardust, Strong Gallery, Edinburgh 2015
• David Bailey Stardust, PAC – Padiglione di Arte Contemporanea, Milano (Italy) 2015

References

External links

Media related to Painter Bailey at Wikimedia Commons