David Bailey, born 1938 in London, is one of the most important figures in fashion and portrait photography.
After a mildly successful school education and his being demobbed by the Royal Navy in 1958, Bailey began to pursued a career in photography.
Bailey began photographing for the British Vogue magazine in 1960 and became one of the essential photographers to capture the "Swinging Sixties". Bailey's style is credited with a monumental impact on celebrity portrait and fashion photography.

Publications

1964 - Box of Pin-Ups
1969 - Goodbye Baby & Amen
1974 - Warhol
1974 - Beady Minces
1975 - Papua New Guinea
1976 - Mixed Moments
1980 - Trouble and Strife
1982 - Bailey NW1
1983 - Black & White Memories
1984 - Nudes 1981–1984
1985 - Imagine
2001 - If We Shadows
1995 - The Lady is a Tramp
1997 - Rock & Roll Heroes
1999 - Archive One
2001 - Chasing Rainbows
2003 - Art of Violence, Kate Kray & David Bailey
2003 - Bailey/Rankin Down Under
2003 - Archive Two: Locations
2005 - Bailey's Democracy
2006 - Havana
2007 - NY JS DB 62
2007 - Pictures That Mark Can Do
2008 - Is That So Kid
2009 - David Bailey: 8 Minutes: Hirst & Bailey
2009 - EYE
2010 - Flowers, Skulls, Contacts
2010 - British Heroes in Afghanistan

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1971 - National Portrait Gallery, United Kingdom
1983 - One Man Retrospective Victoria & Albert Museum, United Kingdom
1984 - International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, USA
1985 - Curator "Shots of Style" Victoria & Albert Museum, United Kingdom
1985 - Pictures of Sudan for Band Aid at The Institute for Contemporary Arts (ICA), United Kingdom
1989 - Bailey Now!, Royal Photographic Society in Bath, United Kingdom
1990 - Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1997 - Camerawork Photogallerie, Berlin, Germany
1997 - Carla Sozanni, Milan, Italy
1998 - A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, USA
1999 - Barbican Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1999 - National Museum of Film, Photography & Television, Bradford, United Kingdom
2000 - Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2000 - City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2001 - Modern Art Museum, The Dean Gallery, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2005 - Democracy., Faggionato Fine Arts
2006 - Havana., Faggionato Fine Arts
2007 - Pop Art, Gagosian London, United Kingdom
2007 - Galeria Hilario Galguera Mexico
2009 - National Portrait Gallery – Beatles to Bowie
2010 - Bonhams, London. Pure Sixties Pure Bailey
2010 - The Stockdale Effect, Paul Stolper Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2012 - David Bailey's East End, Compressor House, London, United Kingdom
2013 - David Bailey's East End Faces, London, United Kingdom
2014 - Bailey's Stardust, National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2015 - Bailey's Stardust, National Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2015 - David Bailey Stardust, PAC - Padiglione di Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy

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Awards

2001 - Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Great Britain
2005 - Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS), Royal Photographic Society, Great Britain
2016 - Lifetime Achievement award, Infinity Awards, International Center of Photography, New York, USA

Books from David BAILEY