Brian Duffy. R.I.P.

Brian Duffy died today.

He was one of the East end boys, alongside David Bailey and Terence Donovan, who photographed the Sixties. Up until then, fashion photographers were older, middle class and Art school educated; And certainly not cheeky Cockney upstarts, like the three mentioned above.
He helped to define how we see the popular culture of that decade.

I met him once in the late 70's brilliant man with a way of looking at life in a way very similar to the way I do. Sad to see him go, although he mostly gave up photography when he burnt all his prints and negatives.

Everyone should see the recent BBC4 documentary film about him.

In the film he gets asked ... Seeing the high price that photographs sell for these days aren't you sorry that you burnt most of yours.... to which he replied.... "No".... That tells you a lot about the man.

R. I. P. Brian

Algy