Untitled
2018
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
2018
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 2018 by Brian Duffy, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows a tall person in a sleek, shiny suit standing sideways. Their face is blurred, and the background has bold red and blue shapes. On the left side, there are small photos of the same person’s face in different angles. The shiny suit looks almost metallic, and the background shapes feel sharp and modern. The artist used a mix of smooth and textured areas to make the figure stand out. Check out more work by Duffy, Brian to see how they play with light and shape.
A framed print from 2018 reproduces Brian Duffy’s design for the Royal Mail’s commemorative stamp celebrating David Bowie’s *Aladdin Sane* album cover, showing Bowie in a three-quarter-length portrait with the signature red-and-blue lightning bolt makeup set against a white background. The print is mounted in a cardboard frame that incorporates ten stamp cutouts—five displaying the original album artwork and five showing alternate black-and-white versions—alongside a slot labeled “Aladdin Sane.” The piece is enclosed in a glazed black wooden frame and accompanied by a printed certificate of…
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Duffy was a London photographer who spent the '60s snapping the city’s sharpest faces—models, musicians, and misfits—before trading his camera for boat-building in the '80s.
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