David Bailey: Four Beats to the Bar and No Cheating

From Vogue's fashion photography to cinema, painting, and sculpture, Bailey is the working-class Londoner who befriended the stars, married his muses—Jean Shrimpton, Catherine Deneuve, and Marie Helvin—and captured the spirit and elegance of his era with a refreshingly simple approach and a razor-sharp eye. He is also the man whose life and work inspired one of the cult films of the sixties, Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up, and who has relentlessly traveled the globe, whether with the most beautiful models or chronicling the contemporary reality of Papua New Guinea, Brazil, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and other countries with ground-breaking reportage. Above all, Bailey is a romantic with a delightful sense of humour approaching his 73rd year and showing no sign of slowing down. Director Jérôme de Missolz has crafted an engaging portrait of this very private man who laid bare the soul of the swinging sixties and seventies with his photographs and films.