Guardian: Jane Brown

[FPjohn]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/interactive/2009/oct/22/jane-bown-photography

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/video/2009/oct/22/jane-bown-exposure-photography

Yours
FPJ

 

[OurManInTangier]

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.

 

[vrgard]

Thanks, FPJ, for posting this.

-Randy

 

[nico]

FPJ, thanks for sharing.
Didn't know Jane Brown, her portraits in available light are amazing, they're very inspiring.

 

[Pickett Wilson]

Incredible portraits!

 

[MartinP]

🙂
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 . . .

 

[mrwestphal]

Thanks for posting! Very inspiring!

 

[brainwood]

A link to a lovely gallery - thanks

Chris

 

[Carlsen Highway]

I love this woman.
On photographing Cartier Bresson who didnt want to be photographed:
"I went up and knobbled him."

 

[photo4ls]

Fpj,Thanks for posting,enjoyed looking at her work.
Her available light work is amazing.
Nelson

 

[JBC]

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

 

[peter_n]

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.

 

[GMcD]

She currently has an exhibition of her work at The Kings Place gallery, London.

 

[c.poulton]

Truly amazing photographs - I feel inspired....

Thanks for sharing

 

[OurManInTangier]

🙂
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 . . .

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!🙄

 

[peter_n]

LOL I love that one Simon! 😀

 

[amateriat]

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

 

[peter_n]

Mine is on its way from London but it may go on sale here soon. Worth keeping an eye on at Amazon.