Brian 60's: The Man Who Shot Duffy

a grumpy old bastard. What a boring and self obessed old get. That's an hour of my life I'll never get back. Well 3/4 of an hour, I bailed before the end.

I only caught the end, but reached the same conclusion.

but for me it was worth watching just to realize that images I'd known and loved for years had been taken by him. He's an excellent photographer, but it must be said that you don't have to be an arse to be artistic. Perhaps the most interesting part of the programme was how he considered his own work. He was just doing a job; photography isn't art... and yet by the end he's staring at a plug socket on the wall in the gallery that's holding his exhibition and saying "Art is what we say it is" or words to that effect. He seems a mass of contradictions and a very difficult cove.

One last thing - Bailey and Duffy together... takes the concept of 'grumpy old men' to new heights!

Watching it now, very much enjoying it (and my associated nostalgiafest). Are some of us being a little oversensitive? Clearly Duffy was prone to be ill-mannered, immodest and odd, but it seems to me to be a very well made programme.

Mr Drayton, its comments like yours that stop more photography programmes being aired, He may have had an attitude problem but his work was superb, why watch 3/4 of the programme if you hated it that much? but I suppose your work is much better?

He tried to claim credit for David Bowie's success - Bowie was nothing before the Aladdin Sane cover apparently. Whilst I hadn't realised that Aladdin Sane was his first number 1 UK album, surely Ziggy Stardust was the breakthrough?!

My wife's a photographer, so we watch as much of this kind of stuff as we can. I really liked him, but thought his son was probably a bit odious. Gum-chewers generally are.

I'd love to get some prints of his work, but, fuck me, they're expensive.

Just watched this on the i-player. Grumpy git but in quite a funny way. But some obvious questions:

* what happened to the wife (puttman vaguely alluded to the family atmosphere in the house/ studio but this wasn't taken any further?) Did they get divorced? Is she still alive?
* was the burning of pictures/negatives a moment of madness that he regretted once he woke up wearing the iron hat the next morning?
* what's he been doing for the last 30 years?
etc. etc. etc.
Didn't even explain his 'art' particularly well. He was obviously a pretty good photographer but why? how? what did he do/see that others didn't? And weren't those new pictures just run-of-the-mill snaps that anyone could take?
I sort of resent spending an hour watching a documentary and then having to ferret around online to find the answers to some pretty basic questions. What do they teach people at BBC journalism school?