Euan Duff

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Euan Duff is a

Second World War
.

He freelanced as a photo-journalist in

Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham
, before taking early retirement in 1990.

He published How We Are (

National Portrait Gallery (including a print of his mother [5]) and Lincolnshire County Council, but he is not represented in the Arts Council
's collections of photography.

The critic John Berger wrote in his introduction to How We Are: "I can think of no comparable contemporary English work of literature or visual art which so gently, so persistently and so finally brings one face-to-face with the wretchedness of the kind of society in which we live: a society in which every personal meaning achieved by an individual is pitted against corporate meaninglessness; in which every personal need, expressed in terms of what is socially available, is in agonizing conflict with the origins of that need in the soul."

References

  1. ^ How We Are: Photographing Britain
  2. ^ "Archives from the new British photography of the 1970s: Euan Duff & Peter Mitchell". Archived from the original on 28 August 2008. Retrieved 23 September 2009.
  3. ^ The Keep
  4. ^ Victoria & Albert Museum
  5. ^ NPG website

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