Photography

I've recently bought the new GQ magazine as it featured David Bailey mini interview and 4 different covers including: John Lennon, Michael Caine, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan and Johnny Depp. I have a great love for Photography and Art, due in the 60s (for me) was the best time for expression Art forms. The amount for huge celebrities within this time helped make the Photographers and Models celebrities them selves. The kind of photographers of this era mainly shot for fashion magazines such as Vogue & Harpers Bazaar but I will also be exploring my favourite documentary style Photographers too.

David Bailey:

In 1959, Bailey became a photographic assistant at the John French studio, and in May 1960, he was a photographer for John Cole's Studio Five before being contracted as a fashion photographer for British Vogue magazine later that year.
The "Swinging London" scene was aptly reflected in his Box of Pin-Ups (1964): a box of poster-prints of 1960s celebrities including Terence Stamp, The Beatles, Mick Jagger, Jean Shrimpton, PJ Proby, Cecil Beaton, Rudolf Nureyev, Andy Warhol and notorious East End gangsters, the Kray twins.
Bailey's ascent at Vogue was meteoric. Within months he was shooting covers and, at the height of his productivity, he shot 800 pages of Vogue editorial in one year.


William Klein:

 

 



He achieved widespread fame as a fashion photographer for Vogue and for his photo essays on various cities. Despite having no training as a photographer, Klein won the Prix Nadar in 1957 for New York, a book of photographs taken during a brief return to his hometown in 1954. Klein's work was considered revolutionary for its "ambivalent and ironic approach to the world of fashion", its "uncompromising rejection of the then prevailing rules of photography" and for his extensive use of wide-angle and telephoto lenses, natural lighting and motion blur.


Brian Duffy:

In 1957 he was hired by British Vogue where he remained working until 1963. During this period he worked closely with top models of the period, including Joy Weston, Jennifer Hocking, Paulene Stone and Jean Shrimpton. Duffy was also a highly successful commercial advertising photographer shooting award winning campaigns for both Benson & Hedges and Smirnoff in the 1970s.

Don McCullin:

McCullin's period of National Service in the RAF saw him posted to the Canal Zone during the 1956 Suez Crisis, where he worked as a photographer's assistant. In 1959, a photograph he took of a local London gang was published in The Observer. Between 1966 and 1984, he worked as an overseas correspondent for the Sunday Times Magazine, recording ecological and man-made catastrophes such as war-zones, amongst them Biafra, in 1968 and victims of the African AIDS epidemic. His hard-hitting coverage of the Vietnam War and the Northern Ireland conflict is particularly highly regarded.




All these photographers are truly amazing in different ways, there are a few documentaries you should check out regarding these photographers.

William Klein: The many faces of William Klein (Imagine/BBC4)
Don McCullin: McCullin Jacqui Morris (DVD)
David Bailey: Four beats to the bar and no cheating (YouTube)
Brian Duffy: The man who shot the 60's (BBC4)