Terence Daniel Donovan was a British

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 photographer and film director

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, best remembered for his fashion

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 photography

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 of the 1960s. He oversaw the music video

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 to Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love

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" and "Simply Irresistible

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Donovan was born in Stepney in the East End of London

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 to Lilian Constance V. (née Wright) and Daniel Donovan, and took his first photo at the age of 15. The bomb damaged industrial landscape of his home town became the backdrop of much of his fashion photography, and he set the trend for positioning fashion models in stark and gritty urban environments.