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David Bailey

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I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.


— David Bailey


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I left school on my 15th birthday.


— David Bailey


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I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.


— David Bailey


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I love learning new techniques.


— David Bailey


#i love #learning #love #new #techniques

I love people for giving me their time. It's a privilege - I make the most of it.


— David Bailey


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I never set out to be a photographer.


— David Bailey


#never #out #photographer #set

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.


— David Bailey


#fingers #i #i do #just #keep

I sort of fall in love with them when I'm photographing them - men and women.


— David Bailey


#i #love #men #men and women #photographing

I suppose because my work was so popular people didn't really look at it.


— David Bailey


#i #look #people #popular #really

I used to love the '20s.


— David Bailey


#love #to love #used






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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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