Photographer. Born David Royston Bailey in Leytonstone. He was contracted to Vogue magazine in 1960 and played a major part in capturing the images of the 'Swinging 60s'. He photographed both the famous and infamous including The Beatles, Jean Shrimpton, Rudolf Nureyev and the Kray twins. The character of the photographer in the 1966 film 'Blowup', was supposedly based on him.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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David Bailey
{Beneath the Waltham Forest logo:} David Bailey, CBE, born January 1938. The...
Photographer, painter, interior designer and designer for stage and screen. Born 21 Langland Gardens, Hampstead. Excelling in a number of art forms he had equally catholic tastes in his affairs, wi...
Person, Cinema, Craft / Design, Photography, Seriously Famous, Theatre
Electrical engineer. Born John Ambrose Fleming in a house named Greenfield in Lancaster. Best known for inventing the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube. He was also an accomplished photographer...
Political activist. Born at 3 Blake Street, Liverpool. He travelled the world as a seaman, living in Canada and the USA, before eventually settling in Battersea, where he opened a photographic stud...
Person, Photography, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Canada, USA
Naturalist and photographer. Born in Enfield. He produced over fifty wildlife films. Our photograph shows him with badgers which he domesticated.
Ray Adamson served as the Mayor of the London Borough of Camden for the year 1997-98Â and from the Camden New Journal published on 13 August 2009 we learn that he was born on 10 August 1928 and died...
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