MAPh | NOTORIOUS: Duffy's celebrity portraits

EXHIBITION

NOTORIOUS: Duffy's celebrity portraits

27 March – 3 June 2012

Brian DUFFY
(Great Britain 1933-2010)
David Bowie: Aladdin Sane 1973
digital print, printed 2011 382 x 382 cm
courtesy Duffy Archive, London

FINAL DAYS! The English photographer Brian Duffy helped to define the visual style of Britain in the '60s and '70s. Alongside Terrence Donovan and David Bailey, Duffy rewrote the rule book on fashion photography. Leaving behind the formal conservatism of the 1950s, Duffy introduced a new style of documentary fashion photography, one perfectly suited to the cool, sophisticated place that was Britain in the 1960s and ‘70s.

This exhibition, drawing on work from the Duffy Archive in Britain, presents a selection of Duffy's portraits. He photographed many of popular culture's coolest people, including Jean Shrimpton, David Bowie, The Beatles, Terrence Stamp and the world's greatest actor, Michael Caine.

MAPh acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong People, and recognises their continuing connection to the land and waterways.

We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

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