Duffy

What you are looking at is the remainder of Brian Duffy’s (1933 - 2010) impressive works. One morning in 1979 Duffy, then one of the most famous fashion photographers in the world, decides to give up photography and starts burning many of his negatives. Why? In the BBC documentary The Man Who Shot The Sixties he says he feels photographers Irving Penn and Richard Avedon “fucked photography for us”. He explains: "You're a bit annoyed when someone does something and you go, 'Shit! I was just about to do that!'" According to Duffy photography was dead by 1972. “Every picture after 72, I have seen pre-72. Nothing new.” Luckily Duffy was stopped before he burnt all of it and thanks to that we now have this beautiful publication featuring over 160 iconic images from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s, including iconic shots of the likes of Michael Caine, Brigitte Bardot, Sidney Poitier, John Lennon, David Bowie to name just a few. We can’t help wonder what this book would have looked like if only...