David Bailey
David Bailey
David Royston Bailey, CBEis an English fashion and portrait photographer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth2 January 1938
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It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
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We knew we have to get a big lead in field events. We just can do what we can do tomorrow. (Vikings) are tough in the track events.
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Kate Moss is the best thing since Jean Shrimpton, really.
In a way, a man's body is more beautiful than a woman's.
I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.
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I sort of fall in love with them when I'm photographing them - men and women.
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The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone can do it, but they said that about the box brownie in 1885 when it came out. It makes photography interesting because everyone thinks they can take a picture.
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It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I've got lots of African statues and things, and the cleaner arranges them like soldiers, which drives me mad. So I have to rearrange them, and I must drive her mad, because I'm doing anarchy and she's doing military manoeuvres.
eight good heads instead seven
Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration.
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We had a total of four structure fires that were of significant size, actual buildings that were caught on fire. And none of those were as the result of fireworks or grass fires.
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We did sort of score a touchdown today, but the thing is you know the battles not even half over yet.
We are not going down with out a fight, though, let me tell you.
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Unfortunately West Virginia has one of the highest rates of childhood obesity in the country. We were looking for something that we could do for our kids and wanted to find something they would actually do.
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I had a touch, like a headache, when I was going through there, so just to be on the safe side, keep the kids out for the day.