David Bailey



Who is David Bailey?

David Bailey was born in Leystone, London England and is regarded as on of the best photographers in the nation. He started out as a photographers assistant at the John French studio, before being contracted as a fashion photographer for Vogue.[1]

What was his style?

Im not sure David Bailey has a style so say he has developed his own style of taking photographs, his photographs don't particularly tell a story to me however, his photographs have a lot more emotion within them rather than a story.

Within the Vogue website you are able to view all of David baileys photographs, his photographs all look very aged but somehow modern at the same time, its a very clever way of photographing and I enjoy the effect that it has when you look at the image.

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The images above are for vogue, the are obviously edited however, looking at the technical side you can't even tell if hes used artificial light or natural light, the detail with in the picture is pretty impressive as well, you can make out everything they intend you to make out within the picture.

David Bailey is still working for Vogue and has an exhibition next summer in the National Portrait Gallery. This will Feature over 250 of his images. The exhibition opens in February.








References

[1] - Vogue. (2013). David Bailey. Available: http://www.vogue.co.uk/person/david-bailey. Last accessed 16th October 2013.

[2] - Vogue. (2013). David Bailey. Available: http://www.vogue.co.uk/person/david-bailey. Last accessed 16th October 2013.