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Duy, who was always considered to be the most

intellectual photographer, worked relentlessly

or over twenty years, and covered every genre.

During the 60s and 70s he caught the mood and

ever-changing cast o rock stars, actors, models,

writers and politicians o the day in a way that

was visually memorable. His archive includes

many iconic images, rom the pre-punk lightening

slash o Aladdin Sane, to the surreal, award winning

advertising campaigns or Benson and Hedges. Hewas the only photographer who was asked to shoo

the Pirelli calendar twice, but by 1979 he had had

enough. A moment o madness led to an instant

decision to quit, and to the burning o bundles o

negatives in the back garden at his studio. Duy

claimed to have said everything he wanted to say

with photography.

Fortunately or us, not all o his negatives were

burnt that day. Ater months o searching, manyhave now been painstakingly rescued rom vaults

and studios around the world and now gathered

together provide a visual record o the genius that

was Duy.

Sidney Poitier, London Lie 1965


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ary Monster 1980

I got the Pirelli calendar because there were two guys that I knew at art school as

students, Alan Fletcher and Derek Forbes who set up this terric design studio with this

smart arse bright American called Bob Gill. They were working or Pirelli in 1960 doing

brochures, and Ads, and they did the rst calendar. Originally it was just or the grease

monkeys to keep in their locker not just tits and bum in the crudest sense, a bit o class.

Then the Managers wanted a copy on their wall and the boys selling cars on the ront lot

wanted one, so it moved dramatically into something that became a piece o Art.

A photographer called Robert Freeman did the rst one, then Terry, and then I did one.

I think in those days you would get a 100 -150 or the week to do it, and you would have

to get everything including ights rom that. The girls would get about 10 guineas a

day, and had to do their own make up and hair. But the whole thing shited enormously,

as technology started to change. A guy called Derek Forsyth, who had been a Pirelli

employee, took charge, got his mouth into gear and was advising everyone on everything,

typography, and layouts. He asked Jeanloup Sie, who loved photographing women with

no clothes on, to do one, but he came over, spoke to Derek and I think he ound him a

bit o a pretentious prat, so he knocked it on the head. At that point one o they guys in

the studio said, Why dont we get Allen Jones? Well Allen Jones had a reputation as

a sexual artist, who I thought was really under-rated, a really very important pre-punk

artist. Anyway he agreed he would be interested i the money was right, and i he could

sort o, do it with photography. I think he was a bit worried that he would degrade Art by

doing a Pirelli calendar. The idea was, he would do a drawing, saying how he wanted to

express himsel, and the execution would be done through photography.

So I got a phone call out o the blue in 1973, because someone knew that technically

I could translate his drawings into photography, and then he

On Pirelli and Bowie


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chael Caine, 1964 John L


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avid Bowie, Aladdin Sane 1973 Sammy Davis Jr. and M


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sula Andress, 1967Debora


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Limited edition. Only 200 numbered copies. Contains a raK3 Fuki Baryte 310gms Giclee Colour Print, rom the Davi

Bowie Aladdin Sane contact sheet. Hand-stamped with

the type and edition number with Duy Archive stamp an

estate embossed. Certicate o authenticity, signed by Chr

Duy and Brian Duys wie, is also enclosed.

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