David Bailey

David Royston Bailey, CBE (born 2 January 1938) is an English fashion and portrait photographer

In 1959, Bailey became a photographic assistant at the John French studio, and in May 1960, he was a photographer for John Coles studio before being contracted as a fashion photographer for British Vogue later that year.

He also undertook a large amount of freelance work.

He spent the 60s shooting celebrities etc.. and basically worked his way up doing that to create his own celebrity status, becoming one of the first real celebrity photographers

At Vogue within months he was shooting covers and, at the height of his productivity, he shot 800 pages of Vogue editorial in one year. Penelope Tree, a former girlfriend, described him as "the king lion on the Savannah: incredibly attractive, with a dangerous vibe. He was the electricity, the brightest, most powerful, most talented, most energetic force at the magazine".

Relation to my work - A lot of david Baileys images are similar to mine in the style, the high contrast and black and white and obviously the fashion area of photography is what I am focusing on for this project.