The following video is a wonderful interview showing a range of Jane Bown's work and recollections about her work and the great and good who she photographed;
Jane Bown worked for the Observer newspaper from 1949.
Many of her portraits are so wonderful that you feel you are in the presence of the subject - and that the essence of the character of the subject is being revealed via the photograph.
For example her portraits of John Lennon are exquisitely sensitive and beautiful - so many of the photographs of him had veneers of stupidity. I suspect that this was often John fooling to cope with the stupidity of many of those with whom the four had to deal.
Photo from Wikipedia
Jane Bown's portraits collectively tell us a lot about her as a person as well as about her as a photographer.
If you want to know more about Jane Bown start HERE or via The Guardian newspaper HERE -0-
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