David Bailey

David Bailey is one of the worlds most well know and iconic portrait photographer. Bailey has shot everyone who is anyone over his successful career. From previous research I have gathered in other projects, I have explained and presented why Bailey has been so acknowledged throughout his time in the photographic industry. I have included two of his most well known portraits below, the photography of Mick Jagger in 1964 and the one of Kate Moss in 2013. Although their is 50 years between the photographs, you can only slightly tell.This shows Baileys famous portrait style that was new and different at the start of his career because there was no one else shooting portraits and fashion photography the way Bailey did, which are still extremely popular and in demand today. His iconic way of capturing portraits are what has made him so well know, the clean simple minimal background makes his subjects stand out so that the audience will concentrate on only them, clearly representing his subjects. David Bailey changed the face of portrait and fashion photography, clearly having a heavy influence of photographers today.

The ways in which Bailey worked also have effect on his photographs. Bailey has always been confident and friendly when photographing and often has a good relationship with his subjects, often already being friends or quickly becoming friends once he has photographed them, shown in the documentary "The Man who Shot the Sixties.". David still shoots today and held his most recent exhibition in 2014 "Stardust" at the National Portrait Gallery which I was looking enough to visit. The exhibition featured a number of his most well known pieces of work and also portraits of others which I did not know existed. He has shot a number of portraits of his wife, that have also been a successful piece of work. They are in a different style to his iconic black and white portraits, but show how diverse and talented Bailey is. The photographs Bailey has captured and produced over his career, will always have a huge impact in the photographic industry, being so famous and having such a advantageous career.