David Bailey- Celebrity Portraits                         

The person who is closing eyes I feel like that is portraying that he is a dreamer, dreaming of ideas, he is a calm and relaxed character

Doing portraits it's important to look at the portrait and see who it is off and see how it relates to the person and matches to their personality and how they should be represented. I think David Bailey has chosen Jack Nicholson to do a portrait shoot is to capture how people can have a dark side to their soul, achieved this by selected a lighting at an angle of his face to emphasize his side of face. He chose this famous actor known in Hollywood who played different roles such as cynical and menacing characters such as the joker in batman film to portray a dark psychotic character to image to show that it's hard to notice a psychopath as everyone can be naturally crazy. Jack Nicholson is well known in a film "The shining" where he is depicted to be a murderous psychopath, I believe that David has chosen this actor to portray anger, fustration just as a psychopath would feel and wanted his image to look kind of comedic in the way his mouth is perched into a square leading people to think its not spontaneous and wanting to give out a message across that everybody has a dark side by making half the actors face lit dark which I find it interesting.