David Bailey
David Bailey
David Royston Bailey, CBEis an English fashion and portrait photographer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth2 January 1938
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.
used
I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.
amazing-places london curious
If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
hate i-hate nostalgic
I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
skulls sculpture
The skull is nature's sculpture.
years shock knows
I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.
hate men sides
I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.
fashion integrity hate
The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.
copies
You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.