David Bailey

I used David Bailey's style of photography which is to take strong black and white pictures. I found in my research that the subject usually didn't smile instead they had a blank face or a serious face. I think Bailey used this effect to  draw the person looking at the photo to the subjects face. 

Originally the picture was in colour so i altered it and made it black and white, most of the picture i found taken by David Bailey were portrait photos so I altered the size of the picture and made it smaller.

In yesterdays session we took portrait pictures in the studio, using the same technique as the photographer i was researching. I used David Bailey style of photography positioning myself in a position similar to one of Bailey's pictures. When i originally took the picture you could see more of me, so i cropped the picture, i still to alter the picture and make it black and white to match Baileys style.
I decided to include the chair because in the picture i researched had cutlery and glasses so i thought the chair would add a classic effect to the photo which is what bailey aimed to do, create pictures that are timeless.

David Bailey

David Bailey's said himself he had no style, in his younger years Bailey developed a love of natural history this led him into photography. In 1959
he became a photographic assistant at the John French studio he then went on to be contracted as a fashion photographer for British vogue magazine in late 1960. Bailey is also said to have helped create the 'swinging London' of the 60s. at the height of his productivity he shot 800 pages of Vogue editorial in one year. Bailey's work is said to have thrived the most during the swinging sixties, his work remains timeless and he remains one of the best original photographers. He maintains that his style of photography remains the same I've always tried to do pictures that don't date. I always go for simplicity.

In this video David explains that he aims to make his work different and out of the box and often has an idea of what he wants. I chose this video because it explains more about David and his unique style. The "Swinging London" scene was reflected in his Box of Pin-Ups (1964): a box of poster-prints of the main 1960s celebrities and socialites including Terence Stamp,The Beatles, Mick Jagger, Jean Shrimpton, PJ Proby, Cecil Beaton, Rudolf Nureyev, Andy Warhol and notorious East End gangsters the Kray twins.