David Bailey
David Bailey
David Royston Bailey, CBEis an English fashion and portrait photographer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth2 January 1938
birthday school left
I left school on my 15th birthday.
children father chess
I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.
girl fashion trying
I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
optimistic london feels
I don't feel very optimistic in London.
sports fighting boxing
I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.
nicholson my-friends megalomaniacs
My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.
rubbish painting
My paintings are rubbish.
thinking class today
The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
handsome burden
Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
confused thinking two
The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
You adapt to who you're photographing.
children lenses use
You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.
art vans
It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
firsts influence
My first influence obviously was Picasso.