Guardian: Jane Brown

The Observer Review supplement has been running Jane Bown's work every week for a few months now. There are some wonderfully gentle images of her work for the Observer, over nearly half a century, that have been a delight to view each week.

For those of us that are lovers of the OM system it should be noted that she's been an OM user for a great deal of her career...and her camera bag is usually her shopping bag, nice touch.
 
FPJ, thanks for sharing.
Didn't know Jane Brown, her portraits in available light are amazing, they're very inspiring.
 
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It is rather amusing that several people have mis-read the photographers name as Brown, when she is actually named Bown.

The links go to the website of The Guardian which is a British weekdays newspaper, now somehow affiliated with The Observer, printed on Sundays, for whom Jane Bown does a lot of work. The Guardian is/was renowned for the number of typographical errors that escaped in to print. Mostly from the days of hot-lead I suppose, but it became known colloquially as The Grauniad - presuming that it was only a matter of time before the masthead had a typo . . .
 
I ordered her book Exposures last week, arrived today. Hope to spend some time with it this weekend, but a t first glance it is WELL worth the money. I would grab it while you can, her earlier books are now out of print, and are pretty spendy on the used market.

Jim Couch
 
Calling her Brown seems appropriate somehow. The Guardian became the Grauniad when it was still the Manchester Guardian as I recall. Seems to be the only decent paper left in England and should never have left Manchester to go south to begin with. Jane Bown is great.
 
MartinP said:
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It is rather amusing that several people have mis-read the photographers name as Brown, when she is actually named Bown.

The links go to the website of The Guardian which is a British weekdays newspaper, now somehow affiliated with The Observer, printed on Sundays, for whom Jane Bown does a lot of work. The Guardian is/was renowned for the number of typographical errors that escaped in to print. Mostly from the days of hot-lead I suppose, but it became known colloquially as The Grauniad - presuming that it was only a matter of time before the masthead had a typo . . .
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The first time one of my pictures was used in the Guardian they credited Nomis Eel instead of Simon Lee. I kept that clipping for years!:rolleyes:
 
Wonderful stuff. And it sounds like Bown is pretty much a one-camera, one-lens kind of shooter. Would love to get that book!


- Barrett
 
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