Interviewer: “Are photographs less powerful now because there are so many of them in the world?”
David Bailey: “No, it just makes the good ones even more powerful. Digital and Photoshop just moved mediocrity up a stop, that’s all. They’re still mediocre – they just look better.”
David Bailey by Roger George Clark, bromide print, 1 May 1979
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