Wednesday, 8 November 2006

David Bailey style: the portraiture assignment

Maggi - Studio19, Edinburgh

Some new stuff... It's still hot!

David Bailey is legendary, but his style is quite simple: Bailey cut off the tops of the subject's head or cropped in closer than most traditional portrait photographers would have done at the time. The background was brighter (around 2 steps) than the foreground which was lit up by one flash, giving a quite hard contrast... Yeah... Quite simple... In theory.

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