David Bailey

David Bailey is an English fashion and portrait photographer. David Bailey was born in Leytonstone East London, to Herbert Bailey, a tailor’s cutter, and his wife, Sharon, a machinist. From the age of three he lived in East Ham.

Bailey developed a love of natural history, and this led him into photography. Suffering from undiagnosed dyslexia, he experienced problems at school. He attended a private school, Clark’s College in Ilford, where he says they taught him less than the more basic council school. As well as dyslexia he also has the motor skill disorder dyspraxia.

Date of birth:
2nd January, 1938
"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."
― David Bailey
Topic(s): Age
"The skull is nature’s sculpture."
― David Bailey
Topic(s): Nature
"The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script."
― David Bailey
Topic(s): Art
"I left school on my 15th birthday."
― David Bailey
Topic(s): Birthday
"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."
― David Bailey
Topic(s): Money
"I’m not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus."
― David Bailey
Topic(s): Movies
"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."
― David Bailey
Topic(s): Home
"A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me."
― David Bailey
Topic(s): Attitude
"The only thing they can’t teach you at art school is art."
― David Bailey
Topic(s): Art
"To get rich, you have to be making money while you’re asleep."
― David Bailey
Topic(s): Money

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