Tony Ray-Jones made photographs of people–and cows and horses–being themselves. We find it hard to take our eyes off them. And once you do, they’re impossible to forget.
Bravo Mr Jones (1941 – 1972). And thank you.
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May 8, 2013 at 1:41 pm
Post 3 – Assignment I ‘Street Photography’ | alexiamakridou
[…] Tony Ray-Jones (1941 -1972) – an English photographer who studied at the London School of Printing and at Yale University School of Art. In 1963 he was given assignments for the magazines Car and Driver and Saturday Evening Post.Eager to use photography for more creative purposes, Ray-Jones went to the Design Lab held by the art director Alexey Brodovitch in the Manhattan studio of Richard Avedon; Ray-Jones also got to know a number of New York “street photographers”, in particular Joel Meyerowitz, who influenced his later work. Ray-Jones graduated from Yale in 1964 and photographed the United States energetically until his departure for Britain in late 1965. Ray-Jones tried to extensively document the way of life of the English “before it became too Americanised”. His photographs of festivals and leisure activities are full of a somewhat surreal humour and show the influence of photographers such as Henry Cartier Bresson, Garry Winogrand,Homer Sykes and his own collection of the work of Sir Benjamin Stone. Part of this work was published posthumously in his book A Day Off (1974). For more information look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Ray-Jones & https://therepublicofless.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/tony-ray-jones/. […]