Taking Care Of Business
An article about the guy who took the photo I use as an icon for this blog
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8287779.stm
Along with David Bailey and Terence Donovan, Brian Duffy took many iconic images of the 1960s. Then, one day, he decided to set fire to his life's work.
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Duffy is able to look back on his incendiary moment in 1979 with a certain amount of phlegmatism.
"One morning I came into work, my assistant said we haven't got any toilet paper. I was employing four staff, was managing director, head of this organisation and my decision was on toilet paper. At that moment I cracked. Later that day I burned something, then I went into burning mode. I got reported and the council came round.
"They were in a big bin. I was making a lot of smoke. Negatives don't burn easily. They make a hell of a lot smoke."
Article By Finlo Rohrer, BBC News Magazine
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8287779.stm
Along with David Bailey and Terence Donovan, Brian Duffy took many iconic images of the 1960s. Then, one day, he decided to set fire to his life's work.
...
Duffy is able to look back on his incendiary moment in 1979 with a certain amount of phlegmatism.
"One morning I came into work, my assistant said we haven't got any toilet paper. I was employing four staff, was managing director, head of this organisation and my decision was on toilet paper. At that moment I cracked. Later that day I burned something, then I went into burning mode. I got reported and the council came round.
"They were in a big bin. I was making a lot of smoke. Negatives don't burn easily. They make a hell of a lot smoke."
Article By Finlo Rohrer, BBC News Magazine