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Getting the Picture

Getting the Picture: 2. He Seduces Everybody!

The Camera Has Attitudes

2. He Seduces Everybody!

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David Bailey tells the stories behind his photographs that have defined the last 60 years.

Photographer David Bailey tells Tim Marlow about collaborations and travelling the world to shoot portraits. From 2014.

David Bailey discusses with Tim Marlow the less well-known - but just as definitive - aspects of his portraiture. These include the documentary photographs he has taken on trips around the world which date back to his National Service in Singapore in the 1950s.

Bailey explains how the writer Rudyard Kipling and the explorer Sir Richard Burton fired his youthful imagination. He also talks about his reaction to the New York of the early 1960s and meeting Andy Warhol there. To a doubtful Tim, who wonders if there will be a change of heart, Bailey initially claims his recent punishing trip to India's Nagaland will also be his last foreign foray. This programme reveals if Bailey will in fact do more work abroad and, if so, where.

Bailey also discusses the joint ventures he has undertaken, including those with his wife Catherine, and with the artist Damien Hirst. Hirst, in turn, reveals how he and Bailey came to work together and what their collaborations have achieved.

As the opening of his show at London's National Portrait Gallery draws near, Bailey looks back on some of the shots that give him special pleasure.

And Catherine tells Tim that Bailey "seduces everyone from behind the camera". She adds, "He does it to me, he does it to everybody!"
 
The second of two programmes about Bailey’s work.

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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