Brian Duffy, one of the most dynamic and inventive photographers of the 1960s, made up 'The Black Trinity' with friendly rivals Terence Donovan and David Bailey. This trio were amongst a group who kept bumping into each other at the same clubs in London 's West End districts of Soho and Mayfair - a heady mix of actors, pop stars and "jelly men", criminals who used gelignite to blow safes. It didn't seem strange that photographers like Bailey and Duffy could take pictures of the Beatles and the Krays. They snapped the celebrities of the day - pop stars, actresses and models . The Lennons, the Caines, and the Twiggys were captured in black and white, frozen for posterity in prints. After more than a twenty years at the cutting edge of photography, Duffy vanished from the London scene as rumours spread that he had burned his negatives. Legendary London Photographer Brian Duffy Captured David Bowie Ever the anarchist, Duffy had indeed begun this destruct...
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