John Davies on The British Landscape. Jane bown. Interactive: The complete Jane Bown: a lifetime in photographs | Art and design. Jane Bown. Jane Bown (born 1925) is a British photographer[1] who has worked for The Observer newspaper since 1949. Her portraits of famous people have received critical acclaim. Personal life[edit] Bown was born in Dorset, and first worked as a chart corrector, which included a role in plotting the D-Day invasion. She studied photography at Guildford College under Ifor Thomas. She started out as a child portrait photographer, but got a break in 1949 when she met Mechthild Nawiasky, an Observer picture editor, who asked her to photograph the philosopher Bertrand Russell. Bown married Martin Moss, CBE, the fashion retail executive, who died in November 2007.
In 1985, she was awarded an MBE and in 1995, she was "upgraded" to the CBE. Professional Life[edit] Bown works primarily in black-and-white, using available light, and a forty-year-old film camera. Bown was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of The Royal Photographic Society in 2000. Exhibitions[edit] Books[edit] Collections[edit] References[edit] E.O. Hoppé | Edwardian Modernist (1878-1972)
Cecil Beaton. Duffy. Terence donovan photographer. Terence Donovan (photographer) Plaque outside Terence Donovan's former studios Donovan was born in Stepney in the East End of London to Lilian Constance V. (née Wright) and Daniel Donovan,[citation needed] and took his first photo at the age of 15. From age 11 to 15 he studied at the London County Council School of Photoengraving and Lithography.[1] 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. Flats and gasometers were popular settings, and he often had the models adopt adventurous poses. He wedged one model up the side of a building, and photographed another as she posed dangling from a parachute. In the early 1970s Donovan branched out into film production and it was during this period that he moved his studio to 30 Bourdon Street, Mayfair, now marked by a memorial plaque.[3] Donovan committed suicide, after suffering from depression.
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