Euan Duff
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
- ^ How We Are: Photographing Britain
- ^ "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.
- ^ The Keep
- ^ Victoria & Albert Museum
- ^ NPG website