Graduating from being an assistant with fashion photographer John French in 1959, David Bailey began the 1960s with a contract with Vogue to become the decade’s iconic chronicler with two defining portrait publications David Bailey’s box of pin-ups (1965) and Goodbye Baby and Amen (1969). They focused on a new social order that evolved from the decade of change. David Bailey was a leading figure in the Swinging Sixties London scene and provided some of the inspiration for the role of the photographer, played by David Hemmings, in Antonioni’s cult film Blow Up (1966.) Bailey had his first Museum exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in 1971.