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Photographer Brian Duffy dies of lung disease

05 June 2010 22:57 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Brian Duffy, one of the photographers whose images helped to capture the spirit of the 1960s, has died, APA reports quoting BBC News.
He was 76 and had been suffering from lung disease.
Known to friends and colleagues by his surname alone, Duffy was a rival of David Bailey and Terence Donovan throughout the 1960s.
Film producer Lord Puttnam said Duffy helped push the stultifying conservatism of the 1950s into permanent retreat.
Duffy is also famed for once burning part of his work in a bin in 1979.
At art school, Duffy studied dress design because he said "there were a lot of good-looking girls doing it" before moving into photography.
He was one of the few photographers to shoot two Pirelli calendars and was famously bad-tempered.
David Bailey said he would have no-one to argue with now. He said: "If you said ’It’s a nice day’ to Duffy, he’d pick an argument with you."
Duffy, Bailey and Donovan were dubbed the Black Trinity and the Terrible Trio.
The BBC’s Andy Moore said all three were working-class East Enders, different to the "gentleman photographers" of the previous era.
They became as well-known as the models and film stars they worked with.