Interesting documentary on BBC4 last night - "The Man Who Shot the 60s" - about Brian Duffy. Duffy was one of several photographers who captured swinging sixties London on film, before quitting photography in the late 1970s. Probably for this reason I'd not heard the name before now, but have seen his work without realising who took the pictures, eg the cover for the Bowie album "Aladdin Sane". Some of the photographs shown are iconic for the period and place. Shame that he burnt many of his originals - what where shown (on TV) look great. There was an exhibition of the work in London last year - pity I only heard about it last night, so I've missed seeing it. Hopefully another gallery will pick it up so I can get to it.
Looking at the TV schedules over this week, the documentary is being repeated several times on BBC4 over the next few days. Perhaps tou can catch it then.
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