Natural inside London, he taught himself photography, before serving by having a Royal Air Force in Malaysia in 1957. Within 1959 he became a photographic helper at a John French studio prior to existence contracted as a fashion photographer for Vogue magazine. He likewise did the big total of freelance work.

Along using Terence Donovan, he captured, and inside numbers of ways helped produce a Swinging London of the 1960s: a culture of high fashion & celebrity chic. Each lensman socialized by owning actors, musicians and royalty, and encountered themselves elevated to celebrity status. Together, it were a number one very celebrity lensman.

A Swinging London scene was ably reflected within his Pack of Pin-Cover girl (1964): a pack of poster-prints of Sixties celebrities & socialites including Terence Stamp, The Beatles, and ill-famed East End gangsters The Kray Twins. the pack was an unusual & unique commercial release, & it reflected a ever-changing status of the lensman that of these can sell a collection of prints therein way. (A heavy objection to the presence of the Krays on the section of Lord Snowdon was the major cause there are no Our contries edition of the "Box" ever appeared, nor the British 2nd edition issued.)

Around 1966, the movie Blowup was made. the film caring itself by having a act (& intimate perquisite) of a London fashion lensman world health organization was largely according to Bailey.

Too when fashion photography, Bailey has been responsible record album sleeve art, for performers including The Rolling Stones and Marianne Faithfull. He has as well directed many television commercials and documentaries.

Bailey has married fourfold: around 1960 to Rosemary Bramble, inside 1967 to the actress Catherine Deneuve (divorced 1972), in 1975 to the exemplary Marie Helvin and in 1986 to the actress Catherine Dyer to whom he is married as of 2004. He was awarded a CBE in 2001.