DUFFY

14 OCTOBER - 7 NOVEMBER 2009

Brian Duffy was one of the most dynamic and inventive photographers of the 1960s. Together with his friendly rivals Terence Donovan and David Bailey he made up ‘The Black Trinity’, a soubriquet used by Norman Parkinson to describe his new, highly successful competition. Then, after more than a twenty years at the cutting edge of photography, Duffy vanished from the scene. A rumour spread that he had burned his negatives.

Ever the anarchist, Duffy had indeed begun this destructive, yet cathartic procedure one afternoon in 1979. However, not all the negatives were destroyed.

Now, after nearly three years of painstakingly archiving the surviving images, Duffy will display his photographs for the first time. The exhibition will contain 60 virtually unseen portraits, fashion photographs, and personal pictures by the man who, along with his two friends, helped revolutionise the photography business. It is an extraordinary body of work that powerfully documents the vibrancy of London in the ‘Swinging 60s’.

A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition.

Monday - Saturday, 10am - 5.30 pm

For further details on each picture, please click on the images or their titles


SIDNEY POITIER [I], 1965	MICHAEL CAINE, 1964	JOHN CRANKO, EARLY 1960S

NINA SIMONE & HER DAUGHTER, SIMONE, 1965	CHARLTON HESTON, 1965	ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, 1970

HAROLD WILSON, 1966	WILFRED BRAMBLE	REGGIE KRAY WITH HIS GRANDFATHER, 1964

PAUL JONES, EARLY 1960S	JOHN LENNON, 1965	PAUL MCCARTNEY & GEORGE MARTIN ARRANGING THE SCORE FOR 'THE FAMILY WAY', LONDON, 1966

WILLIAM BURROUGHS, 1960	GRACE CODDINGTON, 1960	JEAN SHRIMPTON, EARLY 1960S

FASHION FOR 'QUEEN' MAGAZINE, 1965	ADVERTISEMENT FOR AQUASCUTUM, 1960	VERUSCHKA, FOR 'QUEEN', 1965

PAULENE STONE, FOR 'QUEEN', 1963	NUDES FOR THE 'OBSERVER', 1968	'LOVE', CHILDREN'S FASHION FOR 'QUEEN', 1968

COAT HANGERS, 1974	SOUTH OF FRANCE, 1975	MIKE SARNE, LATE 1950S

SMOKELESS FUELS, 1975	HOVIS, 1974	SINK, 1976

GLACES, PARIS, 1972	FAMILY, PARIS, 1972	CHRIS DUFFY, 1976