#142 CAMERA Book Review: David Bailey - Imagine: A Book for Band Aid

An interesting book by David Bailey from the 1980s where he was sent out to Sudan to shoot a series of images to raise awareness of the severe drought and suffering of the indigenous people of the land.

Paperback: 80 pages
Publisher: Thames & Hudson; Reprint edition (29 July 1985)
Language: English
Package Dimensions: 29.7 x 21.6 x 1 cm

David Bailey was born on 2 January 1938 in North Leyton, East London. After living through the blitz he started school and was put in the ‘silly class’ due to what he later discovered was dyslexia.

He left school at fifteen and was conscripted to the Royal Air Force in 1956. Whilst posted in Singapore he bought his first camera and was inspired to be a photographer after seeing Cartier Bresson’s photograph, ‘Kashmir’.

Bailey started working with fashion photographer, John French as his assistant in 1959. He left soon after to strike out his own career as a photographer and published his first portrait of Somerset Maugham for ‘Today’ magazine in 1960. Discarding the rigid rules of a previous generation of portrait and fashion photographers, he channelled 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.

Camera is on
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