David Bailey
David Bailey
David Royston Bailey, CBEis an English fashion and portrait photographer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth2 January 1938
caught fire lost paper products structure toilet
They caught all the toilet paper and paper products on fire in the bathroom. They lost the whole building, a $10,000 structure that was destroyed.
sixties swinging
All that Swinging Sixties nonsense, we all thought it was passT at the time.
manly men sexist
If I have any sexist feelings they are aimed at men: I hate manly men.
money
Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.
home paint people whatever
When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.
advertising anybody bring layout picture taking
I won't do advertising if they bring a layout and say, 'This is what we want to do,' because anybody can do that; it's not interesting. They've got digital and the computer; it's not taking pictures, it's not magic - it's a picture done by committee.
chance death doubt energy goes might somewhere time
I think about death all the time. I know there's nothing out there, but I'm curious. There's a 300 billion-to-one chance that there might be an energy that goes somewhere else, but I doubt it.
five great six somebody understood wives
All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I've never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years and then not like them.
life
The earth has a life of its own.
My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.
My exploits are nothing now to the average person.
good
If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.
I've always tried to do pictures that don't date.
definitive involved lack mad movies people
I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.