LO1.2: Report: David Bailey
David Bailey is a London photographer born 2nd January 1938, he died at the age of 84 with 3 children. He was most active during the 1959 period , this is when he expanded on his work on the transformed British fashion and celebrity photography from chic reserved stylisation to then develop his work to youthful and direct photos with celebrity portraits. David Bailey used the Pentax camera and the Olympus camera for he stated it to be an all in one camera. In 1960 Bailey began work at Vouge as a photographer, he worked there for 15 years until he began to freelance for many other magazines and newspapers. H e left school at fifteen and was conscripted to the Royal Air Force in 1956. Whilst posted in Singapore he bought his first camera and was inspired to be a photographer after seeing Cartier Bresson’s photograph, ‘Kashmir’. He left soon after to strike out his own career as a photographer and published his first portrait of Somerset Maugham for ‘Today’ magazine in 196...
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