Highly entertaining documentary you will enjoy if you're into this kind of thing...here's the blurb on the programme....dunno if you can get this outside UK though, funnily enough we can get it here in Gibraltar but i cant view it when I'm in Spain.....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00pw...o_Shot_the_60s/
Brian Duffy was one of the greatest photographers of his generation. Along with David Bailey and Terence Donovan he defined the image of the 1960s and was as famous as the stars he photographed. Then suddenly in the 1970s he disappeared from view and burned all his negatives. With the first ever exhibition of his work due, Duffy has agreed to be filmed to talk about his life, his work and why he made it all go up in flames.
Why not? I live in Spain (Mallorca) and enjoyed the show very much. Sometimes the satellite signal breaks up due to strong wind and/or atmospherics, but my luck was in this time.
I thought it was very interesting - if you are of that age, as I am - because though Bailey and Donovan have been wrung out time after time, and the regulation Bailey clips appeared on this show too, little has been aired about Duffy, most of what was known of him being his unhappy Pirelli venture and his burning of his negatives. Another guy who was neglected was John Cowan, but that's life. Nova had nice work from Harri Peccinotti.
Opinion: as a contemporary and admirer, I thought Bailey top of the heap by a mile; I didn't like Donovan's style much; Duffy - as I said, well-hidden. John Cowan did interesting stuff and if you like studio work I would put the immigrant Barry Lategan on top of that genre.
Distilling it down, the best of them all, in my mind, were Bailey for location fashion; Lategan for studio fashion. If one can include more non-Brits in this short list, Haskins for beauty of Woman, Hans Feurer for everything and for his personal visual style.
The best fashion magazines? One: Linea Italiana.
A funny thing: few great fashion people seem to have made the change to girls (calendar idiom) very well apart from Feurer and Sarah Moon. I don't know if one should include Haskins in the fashion category even though he did do it on and off...
Those were the days!
Rob C
EDIT: reading this again, it becomes clear that trying to keep the topic within a UK scenario becomes very invidious: there were many more people around at the time, in Europe and in America, that are more than worthy of admiration. Perhaps another thread, which would have to become a book!