David Bailey 

David Bailey was a Biritsh Photographer, born in Leytonstone, London, United kingdom. He was born on the 2nd of January in 1938 currently being (80 years old).  David Bailey being on of the many photographers to have a chance to photography famous people, from Johnny Depp too David Beckham

Bailey developed a love for natural history which them developed his love for photography.  Bailey suffered from undiagnosed dyslexia which resulted in him having to be home schooled.  However, having this happened Bailey claims to have only attended over 30 times which then led him to wanting to drop out of school at the age of 15.

in 1959 Bailey became an assistant photographer to John French, in  1960 he was a photographer for John Cole’s studio Five, which led onto Bailey being contacted by British Vogue Magazine where he worked for about 15 years, first on staff and later as a freelancer. He also freelanced for other magazines and newspapers.

Bailey’s fashion work and celebrity portraiture, characterized by stark backgrounds and dramatic lighting effects, transformed British fashion and celebrity photography from chic but reserved stylization to something more youthful and direct. His work reflects the 1960s British cultural trend of breaking down antiquated and rigid class barriers by introducing  a working-class or punk look into both clothing and artistic products.  He is thought to have inspired the role of the photographer, Thomas, in Michelangelo Antonioni’s film Blow up 1966.

Bailey also directed television commercials and produced a number of books and documentary films. In 1972 he began publishing the fashion and photography magazine Ritz. Although he continued to photograph celebrities for publications such as Harper’s Bazaar and The London Times throughout the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s, he began to turn his attention to television commercials.

Here are some examples of his most famous portraits:

David Bailey relies on heavy lighting and works particularly well with high intensity on shading.  This effect works well as it captures only certain features of the individuals faces.  however with the technique of chiaroscuro artist usually tend to put the shading in the background and brining it into the face, but with Bailey’s work the background tends to be a lighter colour meaning that all tones of darkness and greyness are all focused on areas like the hair and some patches of the models face.

CHIARSCURO

What is It and when was it first used:

Chiaroscuro, in art, is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition. It is also a technical term used by artists and art historians for the use of contrasts of light to achieve a sense of volume in modelling three-dimensional objects and figures.  Some evidence exists that ancient Greek and Roman artists used chiaroscuro effects, but in European painting the technique was first brought to its full potential by Leonardo da Vinci in the late 15th century. Like photographers and cinematographers centuries later, painters realized that the contrast between areas of light and dark heighten the impact of an image. As the Renaissance gave way to the Baroque, a style that emphasised drama and emotional intensity, some artists developed an exaggerated form of chiaroscuro known as tenebrism, from the Italian word tenebroso, meaning gloomy or murky.

Here are some examples of artists who rely on this technique to produce some of their amazing outcomes.

• Caravaggio
• Georges De La Tour
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Joseph Wright
• Henry Fuseli
• Rembrandt
• Ralph Gibson

These are 3 examples of Chiascuro from a long time ago:

This is how we interpret Chiaroscuro in the modern day world, baring in mind to make these shadows is a lot easier than it would have been for Artist like Caravaggio.

I have learnt about using this technique when I was doing my art GCSE. Having looked at Baileys work before I chose to adapt my work to make it sort of similar to his. I did this because when it comes to taking photos in black and white that has always been my strong point.

People use this technique because not only do they like the contrasting effect it makes they also believe it intensifies certain feature that you wouldn’t be able to see as much having the image being taken in just natural lighting.

The principal and lighting technique of chiaroscuro ^

As a group we Decided on two images and we would copy them.

Firstly we did Carravagio ‘Deposition – the image below.

Our version and how we made it look like the image:

1. Starting Point:

2. Process:

This is the process of the director telling us what positions we were going to do and what poses we are going to do. Firstly we looked at the image and decided how was going to be the director and the lighting helper and how was going to reenact the image.

This is based on the second image we focused on a image by

I found these images too over exposed, to sort these problems out we ended up lowering the brightness of the light so that I didn’t over expose the image. I also I would crop the image so you couldn’t see the sides and the lights.

4. Positions:

5. Final Trys:

These out the outcome of the original photo and how we re in acted the image in modern day.

Best Outcomes: