A London boy at heart Bailey who, at 22, worked freelance for Vogue and cracked the industry after years of dedication and perseverance.
He witnessed the 'Swinging Sixties' through the eye of his camera in which he shot some of the most iconic images that truly withstand the test of time.
Jack Nicholson 1984
Jean Shrimpton, Vogue, 1972
Johnny Depp 1995
(wow!!!!)
Marie Helvin, 1977
Mick Jagger, 1964
Salvadore Dali, Paris, 1972
Will Smith, 1997
It was this month's Vogue article on David Bailey that then instigated my love of Jean Shrimpton.
The model that he found being photographed for a cereal ad.
The 18 year old girl that ended his first marriage and became his muse.
The four-year love story
"What attracted me to her was that she genuinely didn't care how she looked. She honestly never understood what all the fuss was about. That was very attractive to me," says Bailey, whose selling exhibition comes to Bonhams this weekend,
"She had the same democratic beauty that Kate Moss has today. She didn't scare people away in the way that someone like Christie Turlington might. She was one of the most beautiful girls I'd ever seen."
Mary Quant dress.
beautiful.
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