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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by David Bailey
bromide print, December 1964
NPG P952
by David Bailey
bromide print, October 1968
NPG P953
by David Bailey
bromide print, November 1968
NPG P955
by David Bailey
bromide print, 1988
NPG P397
by David Bailey
ink jet print on paper, 2014
NPG P1982
by David Bailey
ink jet print on paper, 2014
NPG P1983
by David Bailey
ink jet print on paper, 2014
NPG P1984
by David Bailey
ink jet print on paper, 2014
NPG P1985
by David Bailey
bromide print, 1964
NPG x28723
by David Bailey
bromide print, April 1965
NPG x126466
Reggie Kray; Frances Kray (née Shea)
by David Bailey
bromide print, 1 April 1965
NPG x126467
by David Bailey
bromide print, 1 April 1965
NPG x126468
by David Bailey
bromide fibre print, 1975
NPG x125612
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