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Born in 1938 British photographer David Bailey started his career assisting leading fashion photographer John French and became a key figure in creating the iconic ‚look‘ of the 60s through his work at British, American, Italian and French Vogue - eventually becoming an iconic 60s figure himself. Bailey went on to become an accomplished portraitist and a documentary photographer. He published books ‘David Bailey’s Box Of Pin-Ups’ in 1965 and ‘Goodbye Baby and Amen’ in 1969, lasting paradigms for the publication of photographic imagery. Bailey was a leading figure of that decade and the Swinging Sixties London Scene characterizing the spirit of this pioneering period. He first exhibited in 1971 in the National Portrait Gallery and continued to work for British Vogue in an fruitful partnership with the then art director Terry Jones and is an Honorary fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.