Brian Duffy

Brian Duffy is a photographer I have mentioned previously in my blog about David Bailey. Duffy was a massive success but strangely stopped taking photographs in the late seventies. He madly enough burnt most of his negatives! Along with the class I watched a documentary on his life and work, and burning his negatives was not the only mad thing he used to do! He famously shot David Bowie’s album cover which then inspired Bowie’s sense of style. He worked a lot with the same models, such as Joanne Lumley who he built up a friendship with. Recently he teamed up with her again to recreate an image he took of her and her son years ago. Now Duffy’s son is trying to gather together as many of his dads old images he can find and put them back out there in the public eye. Duffy is not to go forgotten as he has created many masterpieces and has created a style of photography which will always inspire others.
He also worked on a lot of advertising campaigns such as Smirnoff and Benson & Hedges. The Benson & Hedges adverts in particular went on to change the face of advertising forever.

(for some reason it will not let me upload photos so I will do that at a later date!)

http://www.duffyphotographer.com/duffy_website.html