Appreciation of David Bailey

Peter Schrager · Dec 14, 2025

Excellent!! Thank you

CMoore · Dec 15, 2025

There are a couple of longer videos on Youtube that chronicle his career.
That guy had the Midas Touch where photography was concerned.
The dude is funny as heck.
The lies he told John French to get his foot in the door is a great story.

He started a gossip rag called Ritz. It was also very successful.
The stories he tells about "Honesty and freedom of speech" are hysterical.
His staff were "Fearless"
But, he had A LOT of famous friends, and they would complain to HIM about HIS magazine and the Photos/Articles it printed about them

The guy is non-stop entertainment

Using a Million Dollars of CASH to shoot an album cover for Alice Cooper is a comedy you need to hear.
Etc etc etc

cliveh · Dec 15, 2025

He certainly understood the value of contrast. Also notice how he understood the value of showing a hand sideways on, as a hand front on shows to much flesh and can be detrimental to the balance of the porttrait.

Alan Johnson · Dec 17, 2025

The Avedon/Bailey style with one light:

Alex Benjamin · Dec 17, 2025

I have his book David Bailey's Masterclass: A Guide to Creative Photography. It's like stepping into a time capsule back to the mid-80s. I love it.

Sirius Glass · Dec 17, 2025

Thank you. I was unaware of him.

mwdake · Dec 17, 2025

Back in the 80s Olympus used to run ads featuring David Bailey taking a photo somewhere and passers by who didn’t know him would say’ who do you think you are, David Bailey’.
It became a catch phrase in the UK when you had a relative taking to long to take a holiday snap or the like.

MattKing · Dec 17, 2025

This album cover was probably a "tip of the cap" to the legend of David Bailey:

The movie "Blow Up" was probably as well.

Don_ih · Dec 18, 2025

Thank you for making me notice for the first time that Elvis' Hasselblad is not level.

I thought Blow Up was more based on Bert Stern.

AERO · Dec 18, 2025

Jean Shrimpton the famous model (otherwise known as 'the shrimp'..she hated being called that) - was his muse and lover in the 1960s. She packed things in..got married and became a Hotelier in Penzance, Cornwall...She sold the hotel..retired .. She is now aged 83.

pentaxuser · Dec 18, 2025

cliveh said:
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He certainly understood the value of contrast. Also notice how he understood the value of showing a hand sideways on, as a hand front on shows to much flesh and can be detrimental to the balance of the porttrait.

All I initially understood from the hand pulling on the loose jumper and her expression on her face was that it was detrimental to balance of my pure thoughts prior to my attendance at today's vicarage tea-party

I can say however it did have a certain impact on me

pentaxuser

CMoore · Dec 18, 2025

These are classics

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Olympus+-+David+Bailey-+commercial

Alex Benjamin · Dec 19, 2025

David Bailey and The Rolling Stones

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Marianne Faithfull, 1965

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ChrisGalway · Dec 19, 2025

As a student, I spent 1/16th of my entire year's living costs (i.e. UK£25 out of UK£4000) in 1965/66 on David Bailey's Box of Pinups. About 20 years later, my mother was having a clearcut of my "stuff" and threw it in the bin. I've never really got over that!!!

Don_ih · Dec 19, 2025

ChrisGalway said:
As a student, I spent 1/16th of my entire year's living costs (i.e. UK£25 out of UK£4000) in 1965/66 on David Bailey's Box of Pinups. About 20 years later, my mother was having a clearcut of my "stuff" and threw it in the bin. I've never really got over that!!!

You'll be happy to know it didn't appreciate much over the years....

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