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David Bailey

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I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.


— David Bailey


#could #develop #i #picture #time

I did painting before I did photography.


— David Bailey


#did #i #painting #photography

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.


— David Bailey


#because #cellar #coal #eight #i

I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.


— David Bailey


#going #i #know #live #shock

I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.


— David Bailey


#fashion #i #i tried #pictures #portraits

I don't do proud.


— David Bailey


#proud

I don't feel very optimistic in London.


— David Bailey


#i #london #optimistic #very

I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.


— David Bailey


#boxing #bull #except #fighting #i

I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light.


— David Bailey


#around #because #hang #i #light

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.


— David Bailey


#come #did #dreams #make #me






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In 1972 rock musician Alice Cooper was photographed by Bailey for Vogue magazine almost naked apart from a snake. Cooper used Bailey the following year to shoot for the groups chart topping 'Billion Dollar Babies' album with one billion dollars and a baby wearing mascara being shot under armed guard. Artists by David Bailey.

In 2012 the BBC made a film of the story of his 1962 New York photoshoot with Jean Shrimpton. Along with Terence Donovan and Brian Duffy he captured and helped create the 'Swinging London' of the 1960s. Born in East London he became a photographic assistant at the John French studio then photographer for John Cole's Studio Five before being contracted as a fashion photographer for British Vogue magazine in 1960.

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