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Getting the Picture

Getting the Picture: 1. The Camera Has Attitudes

The Camera Has Attitudes

1. The Camera Has Attitudes

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David Bailey reveals how he's photographed the images that have defined the last 60 years.

4 Extra Debut. Photographer David Bailey talks to Tim Marlow about how he has shot some of the defining images of the last 60 years. From 2014.

David Bailey's portrait photographs are world famous, instantly recognisable and have charted decades of fashion, celebrity and notoriety.

"You can't be judgmental and be a photographer," Bailey says in the first of two programmes in which he tells Tim Marlow, how he’s gone about producing the images which have defined our times.

Bailey reveals how he got started and how the portraiture that shot him to fame makes fashion photography more potent. "I thought the best way to sell the frock is through the girl. If the girl doesn't work, the picture doesn't work," he says.

As he lights Tim's own photographic portrait and selects the cameras for the shoot, Bailey discusses how he has gone about portraiture over the last 50 years or more.

In the central London studio which houses his archive of images, Bailey also reveals to Tim how he made his name with photographs of such stars as Marianne Faithfull, most notably for "Vogue".

And Tim talks to Marianne Faithfull herself about the two striking images of her which Bailey shot - in youth and in later years - and the sharply contrasting views she has of them now.

As this first programme draws to a close, the first shots of Tim's photographic session with Bailey are taken.

Producer: Simon Coates

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2014

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Tim Marlow talks to celebrated photographer David Bailey.

Tim Marlow talks to celebrated photographer David Bailey about how he has gone about producing the images that have defined our times.

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