What I didn’t do, and what Jane did do! in The odd entries from life …….

Second day as escaped with out an exposure made, so for resolutions, it went swimmingly yesterday on the beach, dogs people tide and storm clouds with out the storm; but I shall have to put up with the odd day with out an image.

Something I wrote and haven’t posted it yet!

‘Jane Bown Photographer’

Jane Bown passed away last year on the 21st December, she was a great portrait photographer, Antony Armstrong-Jones [Lord Snowdon] call her ‘a kind of English Cartier-Bresson’ She used the minimum of equipment, in her early years she used a Rolleiflex camera and changed to a 35mm SLR camera in the 1960’s, many of her portraits taken with an Olympus SLR film camera and a 85mm lens, and she preferred available light.

I have one book of hers ‘Faces’ and the cover is a portrait of Björk hinding behind her fingers! In side there is a feast of portraits and among them is Sir John Betjeman, stood above the beach near his house in Cornwall, she has caught the poet laughing, I just love that photograph; it captures the jolly essence of the man. Just having John Betjeman’s portrait and Björk is worth the cost of the book.

Jane Bown has left a wonderful collection of portraits, they record many great people of the Second half of the twentieth century; as people write histories of our age I’m certain Jane Bown’s images will illustrate the people who made our history.

Note for tomorrow, take a photograph!

One of yesterday’s that I quite like!

Last updated January 03, 2015