David Bailey born in Leytonstone, England on 2nd January 1938. David Bailey is well known for his famous portrait work. In 1958 Bailey was demobbed and was determined to pursue a career in photography, he bought a Canon rangefinder camera. Unable to fold a place at London College of Painting because of how much school he missed as a child he became the second assisstant to David Ollins, in Charrlotte Mews. He earned 3 pound and 10 shillings and acted as studios dogsbody. In 1959 Bailey became photographic assisstant at the John French Studio and then in May 1960, he was a photographer for John Cole's Studio Five before being contracted as a fashion photographer for Bristish Vogue. Since 1966 Bailey has also directed several television commercials and documentaries, from 1968 to 1971 he directed and produced TV documentaries such as Beaton, Warhol and Visconti. In 1985 Bailey photographed the stars that took part in the Live Aid concert.
This photo is of the Kray twins London's most notorious criminals of the 1960's and David Bailey photographed them before they got sentenced to prison for murder in 1969. In this photo you can see that both of the man are the subject and they are made more of the subject because it is just a plain white background so that the guys stand out more. The way they are both looking, its like they are hard man and they have no care in the world for the things that they have done. It is a close up photo so Bailey would of been standing relatively close to the subjects and standing closer captures more detail. The photo was obviously taken before they were sent to prison in 1969 but the photo is kind of in the style of a mug shot so it's like David Bailey knew they would go to prison and it is a pre mugshot before they actually got sent down. This was a famous photo for David Bailey he claims that he made the Kray twins famous, but also the pose in the image has been used by other photographers using other people.
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