David Bailey (photographer) David Royston Bailey, CBE (born 2 January 1938) is an English photographer, regarded as one of the nation's best.[1][2] Early life[edit] David Bailey was born in Leytonstone, East London,[4] to Herbert Bailey, a tailor's cutter, and his wife, Gladys, a machinist.
From the age of three he lived in East Ham.[5] "In the winter", he recalled, the family "would take bread-and-jam sandwiches and go to the cinema every night because in those days it was cheaper to go to the cinema than to put on the gas fire. I'll bet I saw seven or eight movies a week. David bailey.