As a young man Bailey worked with other photographers as their assistances, until he had made enough contacts and had enough experience to start getting his own workflow. As a young man with charm he bought sexiness into photography which was a big jump for photography at the time as people were use to seeing composed classy photos.
David Bailey also had a way of composing couples, to show joint personalities and individual ones. It wouldn't just be side by side saying cheese. For example the photo of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. They are composed in a way that is portrayed that they are one person, it is intimate but not feminine, as they are in a strong triangular structure.
By looking at this image of McCartney and Lennon by Bailey and how he composed two beings, it gave me an idea of how I could composition two young lads. And this was my version slightly different but keeping a similar structure with the arms.
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