David Bailey
David Bailey
David Royston Bailey, CBEis an English fashion and portrait photographer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth2 January 1938
girl fashion trying
I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
handsome burden
Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
movie art scripts
The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.
thinking class today
The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
favour trendy dangerous
Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.
fool educated educated-fools
Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.
silly school class
I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.
simplicity
I always go for simplicity.
insecure people want
People want security in this insecure world.
buddhist wonderful continuous-change
I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.
thinking knowing open-minded
Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded.
birthday school left
I left school on my 15th birthday.
strong-women strong men
I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.
idiot dyslexic
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.