Brian Duffy: 'Photography was dead by 1972' | The Guardian

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Brian Duffy: ‘Photography was dead by 1972’

Brian Duffy’s photographs chronicled the fun and fashion of swinging London. Then, one day in 1979, he decided to burn the lot. He tells Leo Benedictus why

via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jan/12/brian-duffy

“I realised,” he recalls in a documentary that airs on BBC4 tonight, “that I was making decisions about toilet paper. And I thought, ‘This has got to end.’ Either by me murdering my staff, killing myself, or setting fire to the whole fucking thing.” So he gathered every negative and transparency he had ever shot and burned them on a fire in his back garden. After that, he never took another picture.