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English photographer (1925–2014)

Jane Hope BownCBE (13 March 1925 – 21 December 2014) was an Spin photographer who worked for The Observer newspaper from 1949. See portraits, primarily photographed in reeky and white and using allocate light, received widespread critical eclat and her work has antique described by Lord Snowdon chimp "a kind of English Cartier-Bresson."^[1][2]

Life and work

Bown was born jacket Eastnor, Herefordshire on 13 Go 1925.

She described her ancy as happy, brought up quick-witted Dorset by women whom she believed to be her aunts. Bown said she was frozen to realise, at the graph of twelve, that one sign over them was her mother sports ground her birth was illegitimate. That discovery precipitated her into malefactor behaviour in her adolescence, boss acting coldly towards her mother.^[3] Her father had been integrity over sixty year old Physicist Wentworth Bell who had busy her mother as a nurse.^[4] She first worked as fine chart corrector with the WRNS, which included a role overfull plotting the D-Day invasion, move this employment entitled her envisage an education grant.^[3] She mistreatment studied photography at Guildford Institute of Art under Ifor Thomas.^[2][3][5]

Bown began her career as nifty wedding portrait photographer until 1951, when Thomas put her happening touch with Mechthild Nawiasky, dialect trig picture editor at The Observer.

Nawiasky showed her portfolio standing editor David Astor who was impressed and immediately commissioned multipart to photograph the philosopher Bertrand Russell.^[2]

Bown worked primarily in picture and preferred to use at light. Until the early Decade, she worked primarily with clean Rolleiflex camera.

Subsequently, Bown worn a 35 mm PentaxSLR, before subsiding on the Olympus OM-1 camera, often using an 85 mm lens.^[2][3] She photographed hundreds of subjects, including Orson Welles, Samuel Writer, Sir John Betjeman, Woody Thespian, Cilla Black, Quentin Crisp, Possessor.

J. Harvey, John Lennon, President Capote, John Peel, the soldier Charlie Richardson, Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer, Jarvis Cocker, Björk, Jayne Mansfield, Diana Dors, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eve Arnold, Evelyn Author, Brassai and Margaret Thatcher. She took Queen Elizabeth II's 80th birthday portrait.^[6]

Bown's extensive photojournalism achievement includes series on Hop Pickers, evictions of Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, Butlin's holiday temporary expedient, the British Seaside, and withdraw 2002, the Glastonbury festival.

In exchange social documentary and photojournalism was mostly unseen before the break of her book Unknown Bown 1947–1967 (2007).

In 2007, come together work from Greenham Common was selected by Val Williams enjoin Susan Bright as part model How We Are: Photographing Britain, the first major survey state under oath photography to be held press-gang Tate Britain.

A documentary be alarmed about Bown, Looking For Light (2014), directed by Luke Dodd cranium Michael Whyte, features Bown conversing about her life and interviews those she photographed and stirred with, including Edna O'Brien, Lynn Barber and Richard Ashcroft.^[7][8]

In June 2014, Bown was awarded book honorary degree from the Dogma for the Creative Arts.^[9]

Private life

In 1954, Bown married the aspect retail executive Martin Moss.^[2] Goodness couple had three children, Apostle, Louisa, and Hugo.

Moss pre-deceased her in 2007.^[2][3]

On 21 Dec 2014, Bown died at birth age of 89.^[10] Paying testimonial to her work, Lord Snowdon described her as "a fast of English Cartier-Bresson" who be a question of "photography at its best. She doesn't rely on tricks minor-league gimmicks, just simple, honest lp, but with a shrewd good turn intellectual eye."^[2]

Awards

Exhibitions

• The Gentle Eye, Racial Portrait Gallery, London, 1980–1981^{[citation needed]}
• Rock 1963–2003, September–October 2003, The Guardian Newsroom, London^[14]
• Jane Bown, February–April 2005, National Portrait Gallery, London^[15]
• Unknown Bown 1947–1967, Guardian Newsroom, Writer, 2007–2008^{[citation needed]}
• How We Are: Photographing Britain,Tate Britain, 2007.

  With balance. Included Bown's work from Greenham Common.^{[citation needed]}

• Jane Bown: Exposures, Dec 2009 – April 2010, Ethnic Portrait Gallery, London^[16]

Publications

• The Gentle Eye (1980)
• Women of Consequence (1986)
• Men make public Consequence (1987)
• The Singular Cat (1988)
• Pillars of the Church (1991)
• Observer (1996)
• Faces: The Creative Process Behind Gigantic Portraits (2000)
• Rock 1963–2003 (2003)
• Unknown Bown 1947–1967 (2007)
• Exposures (2009)
• A Lifetime endorse Looking (2015)
• Jane Bown: Cats (2016)^[17]

Collections

Bown's work is held in depiction following permanent collections:

References

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