A revealing portrait of this most self-effacing but great portrait photographer emerges through conversation anecdote and candid reflection. In the almost six decades that Jane Bown (b 1925) worked for the Observer newspaper she became renowned for insightful highly individualistic portraits of the famous. Some of these portraits are now regarded as classics of the genre - Samuel Beckett Queen Elizabeth the Beatles Bertrand Russell Mick Jagger Margaret Thatcher etc. Bown's great mantra is 'photographers should neither be seen nor heard'. Diminutive in stature... and with an all-important ability to blend into the background Bown was the antithesis of the Fleet Street macho photojournalist. This feature documentary is a beautiful portrait of both Jane Bown her determination to succeed in an almost exclusively male world and her process of working as a photographer. It includes interviews with Rankin Nobby Clark and Don McCullin and her many iconic photographs of the great and the good (and a few bad) of the twentieth and twenty first centuries. [show more]
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Documentary about British photographer Jane Bown. Bown began working as a photojournalist for The Observer newspaper in 1949 and has since taken portraits of countless well-known subjects including Bertrand Russell, Margaret Thatcher, Queen Elizabeth II, Björk and Mick Jagger. Despite her somewhat unusual working methods, such as frequently using only natural light and using a shopping bag as a camera case, she managed to succeed in a male-dominated world. The film takes a look at her career and features contributions from the woman herself as well as photographers Rankin, Nobby Clark and Don McCullin.
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