PHOTOGRAPHER

David Bailey

1938 - Today

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David Royston Bailey (born 2 January 1938) is an English photographer and director, most widely known for his fashion photography and portraiture, and role in shaping the image of the Swinging Sixties. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Bailey has received more than 1,621,276 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. David Bailey is the 68th most popular photographer (up from 72nd in 2019), the 2,469th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,585th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Photographer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, David Bailey ranks 68 out of 148. Before him are Hiroshi Sugimoto, Imogen Cunningham, Adolfo Farsari, Erich Salomon, Wilson Bentley, and Helen Levitt. After him are Karimeh Abbud, Berry Berenson, Gertrude Käsebier, Cornell Capa, Gisèle Freund, and Manuel Álvarez Bravo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, David Bailey ranks 257. Before him are Aleksei Yuryevich German, Spencer Johnson, Corine Rottschäfer, Leonardo Favio, Mort Shuman, and Roy Thinnes. After him are Nikola Kotkov, Susan Strasberg, Artavazd Peleshyan, Jayant Narlikar, Myechyslaw Hryb, and Ingrid Caven.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Bailey ranks 2,469 out of 8,785. Before him are Peter Frampton (1950), George Arnott Walker-Arnott (1799), Benedict Biscop (628), Sydney Chapman (1888), Richard Marquand (1937), and Robert Kerr (1755). After him are Paul Smith (1946), Geoff Bent (1932), John Alcock (1892), Mary Ann Bevan (1874), Sally Hawkins (1976), and Barbara Hepworth (1903).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In United Kingdom

Among photographers born in United Kingdom, David Bailey ranks 4. Before him are Eadweard Muybridge (1830), Roger Fenton (1819), and Cecil Beaton (1904). After him are Henry Peach Robinson (1830), Alexander Gardner (1821), Allan Warren (1948), Zaida Ben-Yusuf (1869), and Mick Rock (1948).

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