1. DAVID BAILEY
THE BIRTH OF COOL

2. In your groups write down some words that you
feel describe the images below

3. • BEFOR BAILEY PHOTOGRAPHERS WERE GENTLEMEN A
PRIVALEDGED ELITE BAILEY ALONG WITH DUFFY, AND
DONAVON CHANGED ALL THAT
• WORKING CLASS
• THEY MIRRORED THE SITUATION OF THE COUNTRY AT THE
TIME MOVING AWAY FROM TRADITION AND LEAVING THE
ASTARITY OF THE WAR BEHIND
• A TIME OF NEW FREEDOMS AND CREATIVE POSSIBILITYS.

4. • TRADIONAL PORTRAITS USED TRADITIONAL COMPOSISTIONS AND
OFTEN WERE FULL OF PROPS THAT MIRRORED THE SITTER.
• A THROUGH BACK TO WHEN PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY WAS USED
AS A MEANS OF SHOWING THE WORLD ALL YOU POSSES AND HOW
WELL YOU WERE DOING IN LIFE.
• HEAVERLY INFLUENCED BY PICCASSO AND HIS CUBIST THEORY
BAILEY THREW OUT ALL THE TRADIONAL THOUGHTS ON
COMPOSISTION AND TOOK AWAY THE PROPS WHICH HE FELT
DISTRACTED.
• THE ERA SAW THE BIRTH OF THE CELEBRITY, BEETLMANIA GRIPPED
THE NATION,PEOPLE WERE BECOMING WELL KNOWN AND BAILEY
SAW THAT THE PERSON WAS ENOUGH FOR THE PHOTOGRAPH.
• HE PLACED THE SUBJECT ON A PLAIN BACKGROUND AND LEFT THE
VEIWER TO FOCUSS PLAINLY ON THE SITTER RATHER THAN
ANYTHING AROUND THEM.

5. Picasso – New idea’s

6. • Henri Cartier Bresson
• A Major influence on
Bailey and his ideas of
challenging
composition

20. • In your weebly contextual tab
• Pick two of Baileys images and analyse them
in full. Make sure to make particular reference
to the time in which they were taken and the
composition of the images
• Use your talking about photography sheet to
help you r with the analyse