“I can not remember a time that I did not have a camera. I like to tell stories and histories that I discover in the World. All this is best to share because time is relentlessly rolling forward a process that sometimes erases the temporary, the ephemeral. A snapshot, the fixing of time is a primal reason why I love Photos. I also create worlds in scale models to photograph and let the observer give me the story behind the images.”
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David Bailey has 59 years of experience in photography. From self-taught to 8 years of formal instruction. He has worked in and managed photo labs. Do you remember these changes in photography, switching from chemical to Digital Photography in 2003? He continues to learn new things. He is a natural autodidact and a polymath, so all things that influence him except for sports, which is his blind spot. Working as a scale model designer and a film-making librarian has added to his odd skills. He is currently the president of the Whittier Photographers Society and loves to talk about photography.
His photographs have graced the walls of the Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts, Whittier College in a Solo Exhibition, has received awards at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, NV, the Vincent Price Art Gallery at East Los Angeles College, Millard Sheets Gallery in Pomona, the Whittier Art Gallery in Whittier, the Hillcrest Festival of Fine Arts in La Habra Heights, and he has photos used in the motion picture “Take Me Home” in 2011.
