David Bailey Against Airbrushing

Jennifer Denby — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:30:00 BST

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Renowned 60’s Vogue photographer, David Baily, has joined the likes of editor Katie Grand and German fashion photographer, Peter Lindbergh in their aversion to heavy retouching.

David Bailey said: “D’you know any model over the age of 23 has to be touched up these days. Twenty-three? It’s f*cking ridiculous but that’s what you have to do for American Vogue and it’s getting to be the same over here [in England]. They want shoots that look like a shop window in Knightsbridge. They always have the same kind of dead-looking girls. It isn’t interesting and the girls aren’t interesting. Because they aren’t girls. They’re androids. Airbrushed and cleaned up and not real.”

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David Bailey Against Airbrushing