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David Bailey

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About David Bailey

David Royston Bailey is an English photographer and director, most known for his fashion photography and portraiture, and role in shaping the image of the Swinging Sixties. Bailey has also directed several television commercials and documentaries.

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I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.
I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.
In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.
All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at …
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about s…

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I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.
London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city.
In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.
I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.
The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
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 lookin…
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.
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 lookin…
The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.
The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.