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. He 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 1960.

 This photo is interesting because it shows David's signature style of having the photo in black and white which gives a "punk" like theme to the image, he also may have used a small aperture, fast shutter speed and a low ISO this would help let less light into the camera which gives the jackets the look of them having no detail and with there being less light into the camera it gave them the nice shadows on the side of their faces. 

 This is a portrait of famous actor Michael Caine which was taken in 1965, the same process has been used here like in the last photo, a small aperture has been used, there is a low ISO and a fast shutter speed which again brings back Bailey's famous use of the "punk" style. It also gives the picture almost little to no detail except from the the cigarette and the glasses. 

 This changes Bailey's style a bit as it has the model leaning forward looking like he is popping out of the screen/page. However, the shadow has been changed from the left side of the models face to the right side of the face, this shows that the lighting has been moved to give off more of sinister look. 

David Bailey's style is mainly stylised portraits where he uses a low aperture, low ISO and a faster shutter speed. Robert Capa is a war photographer who was sent to the Spanish civil war so his photos could be used in the press, his most famous photo has been called a fake and that it shouldn't be called a war photo when people think that it's staged. 

 This is the Olympus Trip 35 which was used by David Bailey during his earlier work.