You are here: About>Hobbies & Games>Photography> World Photography> Europe> Britain> David Bailey and Fashion Photography [hobbies_photography;kw=;site=photography;chan=hobbies;pos=lb;sz=728x90;ord=16AL0Hj01OkWA0s2Z] About.com Photography ____________________ Go Hobbies & Games Photography Essentials Digital Camera & Photo AdviceNotable PhotographersPhotography 'How To'sGlossary of PhotographyFirst Steps in Digital Topics BasicsTaking photosSpecial ProcessesPrinting, PresentationCareers and BusinessHistoryWorld PhotographyPhotojournalism DocumentaryPeople and PortraitsNudes & FashionPlaces, Buildings & ThingsScientific PhotographySoftwarePublications Buyer's Guide Before You BuyTop PicksBooks for new photographersGeneral Histories of PhotographySLR Cameras for new photographersProduct Reviews Tools Compare Prices Yellow Pages Forums Most Popular Articles Latest Articles Help FREE Newsletter Sign Up Now for the Photography newsletter! ____________________ [su.gif]-Submit See Online Courses David Bailey and Fashion Photography [dot_clea.gif] Swinging the sixties [dot_clea.gif] [dot_clea.gif] [dot_clea.gif] Related Resources o World Photo Guide o Fashion links o Fashion with Attitude o Sixties Style o Notable Photographers [dot_clea.gif] [dot_clea.gif] [dot_clea.gif] Elsewhere on the Web o David Bailey - PDN o Avedon - PDN [dot_clea.gif] "David Bailey!" kids used to scream at me across the street as I wandered camera in hand through London's run-down East End. Bailey was photography to the man and woman in the street; a media star and also a local boy made good. Bailey helped make London's Swinging Sixties and they made him. The Beatles, the Stones, Marianne Faithful and all were stamped into our memories by his lens, together with those first supermodels, Shrimpton, Twiggy and those less desirable East End characters, gangland's Kray brothers. Bailey, Terry Donovan and Duffy together made the terrible three of UK photography in the sixties, injecting a shot of street-wise working-class energy into the sometimes precious world of fashion photography. Bailey's upfront 'in your face' high-contrast portraits, although showing his indebtedness to Irving Penn and Richard Avedon, set a trend which still dominates editorial portraiture, their tight cropping breaking many of the established 'rules' and designed to defy editors to find any way to further crop his work. London in 1999 had a major show of Bailey's work at the City's leading Barbican Art Gallery, still touring worldwide as the ''Birth of the Cool', and of Donovan's at the Museum of London. In the same year a new book, David Bailey: Archive One 1957-79 written by Martin Harrison was added to the dozen or so previous volumes of his pictures. Bailey is often thought of simply as the model for the high living, fast driving, promiscuous photographer of the film Blow Up. It's actually worth getting to know his pictures better. WEB LINKS BAILEY David Bailey Biography, gallery of 20 fine pictures (click to enlarge), interview and video from PDN Legends Online. Bailey's Sixties on show Short text and video from the BBC. "It (fashion photography) was better than living in East Ham". Young Meteors Exhibition of UK photography from the 1960s at the UK National Museum of Photography, Film and Television. David Bailey/Birth of the Cool : 1957-1969 Review of the book. Hamilton's Gallery: David Bailey Silver and platinum prints. AVEDON Richard Avedon web site Information on and articles by Avedon, but only a couple of pictures on the front page. Richard Avedon - Fraenkel Gallery Represents Avedon - 5 pictures (one a triptych) on line. Avedon - German article Article in German with 4 illustrations Avedon - PDN/Kodak Legends on Line Superb view of the book 'Avedon The Sixties' with around 20 pages on line and related information. Avedon - Max Kozloff 3 page article by on Avedon - worth reading. Illustrated by 3 Avedon pictures which caused the publisher to order the book to be withdrawn following objections from Avedon's lawyer. Kozloff claimed a defence of 'fair use' under which the illustrations are included in the article. Avedon -Neil Selkirk Wired article on Avedon by photographer Neil Selkirk - no illustrations. Books by Avedon Long list of links to books and other publications. 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