>David Bailey
Photographer
David Bailey is one of Britain's most highly acclaimed photographers whose career has spanned over four decades. He is undoubtedly part of the mythology of the 1960s when his flourishing early career was extensively documented in the pages of British, American, French and Italian Vogue. Following a traineeship with leading fashion photographer John French, Bailey went on to become an accomplished portraitist and a documentary photographer. Even before his editorial acclaim, he published 'Box of Pin Ups' in 1964 - a lasting paradigm for the publication of photographic imagery. After characterising the spirit of this pioneering period, Bailey progressed into moving imagery, directing both commercials and television documentaries. He continued to work for British Vogue and formed a fruitful partnership with the then art director Terry Jones, creating some of the most vivacious and overlooked imagery of his career. As much as Hawaiian model Marie Helvin typified his career in this 1970s period, Catherine Bailey became the tenet of his work in the 80s, and also featured in his 1995 South Bank Films commission 'The Lady is a Tramp'. Bailey is an Honorary fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.
Selected Awards
The Golden Lion, Cannes
EMMY Award, America
CBE 2001
Selected Exhibitions
'Birth of the Cool', 1957-1969 & contemporary work' touring from Barbican, London, to Bradford, Stockholm, Helsinki, and Edinburgh, 1999-2001
Curator 'Shots of Style' V&A Museum 1985
David Bailey retrospective V&A Museum 1983
Selected Publications
Archive One, 1999
Nudes, 1984
Warhol, 1974
Goodbye Baby and Amen, 1969
Box of Pin Ups, 1964
Selected Films
‘The Intruder’, GFT Kingsborough / Steve Walsh Productions, 1999
‘Models Close Up’, Ginger Television Production, 1998
‘Who Dealt?’, BBC Television, 1992
‘Beaton’, ‘Warhol’, ‘Visconti’, 1968-1971