Picture legend Duffy dies

The worlds of fashion and photography last night led tributes to top photographer Brian Duffy, who died on Monday aged 76.

Duffy, who reinvented photography in the Sixties together with David Bailey and Terence Donovan, was notoriously grumpy. Bailey said: "If you said 'Good morning' he'd question it. I'll miss arguing with him." And Joanna Lumley, who posed for Duffy in the 60s, recalled how he would ply models with wine and tell them to sing before he would take their picture. London-born Duffy studied fashion design, became an artist then switched to photography. Among his pictures was one of Reggie Kray sparring with his grand-dad and David Bowie's iconic Aladdin Sane album cover. In 1979 he tried to destroy all his negatives in a rage after an office boy complained there was no loo paper. He said: "I was chairman, CEO and main stockholder... and now I was responsible for toilet paper too."

After that incident Duffy quit photography and became a furniture restorer.