In 1959 he became a photographic assistant at the John French studio before being contracted as a fashion photographer for Vogue magazine in 1960. He also undertook a large amount of freelance work. One of the most notable points about the portraits within the box is that 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. This gave an impression that the pictures were bigger than they actually are, and has since become a common practice in portrait and fashion photography.
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