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.
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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