From dyslexic dropout to legendary photographer

Milan

HE may be a Swinging Sixties icon, but British photographer David Bailey up close is a wise-cracking crank who shrugs off his immense success as one of the world's most famous celebrity photographers.

"I'm not proud, I don't do proud," he told journalists at the press opening of his Stardust exhibition, which will be held in Milan from March to June after a run at the National Portrait Gallery in London.