David Bailey
(1938-), Photographer and film-makerSitter in 19 portraits
Artist of 35 portraits
Graduating from being an assistant with fashion photographer John French in 1959, Bailey began the 1960s with a contract with Vogue to become the decade's iconic chronicler with two defining portrait publications David Bailey's box of pin-ups (1965) and Goodbye Baby and Amen (1969). They focussed on a new social order that evolved from the decade of change. Bailey was a leading figure in the Swinging Sixties London scene and provided some of the inspiration for the role of the photographer, played by David Hemmings, in Antonioni's cult film Blow Up (1966.) Bailey had his first Museum exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in 1971.
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Photographers (David Bailey; Brian Duffy; Terence Donovan)
by Arnold Newman
bromide print, 1978?
NPG P150(45)
David Bailey; Catherine Bailey
by Lord Snowdon
gelatin silver print, 28 October 1986
NPG P1849
Six photographers with their favourite models
by Terence Donovan
modern bromide print, 1960s
NPG x135756
by Peter Rand
bromide print, 1962
NPG x136000
Catherine Deneuve; David Bailey and six unknown sitters
by Lewis Morley
bromide fibre print, 1 December 1965
NPG x47120
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1965
NPG x14019
by Patrick Lichfield
archival inkjet print, April 1969
NPG x128480
by John Swannell
archival digital print, 1971
NPG x134776
by Unknown photographer
bromide press print, 1971
NPG x182363
by Unknown photographer
bromide press print, 1971
NPG x14055
Photographers at Cap D'Antibes
by John Swannell
archival digital print, 1977
NPG x134401
by Roger George Clark
bromide print, 1 May 1979
NPG x15080
David Bailey; Patrick Lichfield; Terence Donovan
by John Swannell
bromide fibre print, circa 1980
NPG x25285
by John Swannell
bromide print on card mount, 1981
NPG x35962
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