David Bailey is an artist, photographer and commercial director. His portraits are widely known, having photographed everyone from The Beatles to the Queen of England.
Discarding the rigid rules of a previous generation of image makers, he channeled the energy of London’s newly informal street culture into his work. In 1965, he published David Bailey’s Box of Pin-Ups, which is now seen as defining an era and shaped the future of photography. Bailey’s career has been varied, and, in 1966, he began to direct the first of hundreds of commercials. He has been recognized internationally for his skills as a filmmaker, and won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for his Greenpeace commercial. Bailey has exhibited worldwide, the first of his landmark exhibitions in 1971 at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
