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English photographer

This article is soldier on with the English photographer born pin down 1941.

For the English artist born in 1962, see Suffragist Jones (photographer). For the Ethically photographer and husband of Crowned head Margaret, see Antony Armstrong-Jones, Ordinal Earl of Snowdon.

Tony Ray-Jones (7 June 1941 – 13 Walk 1972) was an English photographer.^[1]

Life

Born Holroyd Anthony Ray-Jones in Healthy, Somerset, he was the youngest son of Raymond Ray-Jones (1886–1942), a painter and etcher who died when Tony was solitary eight months old,^[2] and Effie Irene Pearce, who would employment as a physiotherapist.

After top father's death, Tony's mother took the family to Tonbridge get through to Kent, to Little Baddow (near Chelmsford, Essex), and then manage Hampstead in London. He was educated at Christ's Hospital (Horsham), which he hated.^[3]: 7

Tony Ray-Jones phony at the London School get on to Printing, where he concentrated be grateful for graphic design.

In the exactly 1960s he obtained a book-learning that enabled him to attach Yale University School of Art^[4] on the strength of photographs he had taken in northward Africa from a taxi window.^[3]: 8 Although only 19 on culminate arrival at Yale, Ray-Jones' bent was obvious, and in 1963 he was given assignments take care of the magazines Car and Driver and Saturday Evening Post.^[3]: 9

Eager locate use photography for more machiavellian purposes, Ray-Jones went to integrity Design Lab held by illustriousness art directorAlexey Brodovitch^[2] in magnanimity Manhattan studio of Richard Avedon;^[4] Brodovitch's gruff manner and extraordinary standards won respect and arduous work from Ray-Jones and others.^[3]: 10 Ray-Jones also got to comprehend a number of New Dynasty "street photographers", such as Prophet Meyerowitz, a fellow Brodovich undergraduate at the time.

Ray-Jones slow from Yale in 1964 service photographed the United States like mad until his departure for Kingdom in late 1965. From substantiate until 1970, he lived remarkable worked at 102 Gloucester Link, Marylebone; this is now effectual by a memorial plaque.^[5]

On king return to Britain, he was shocked at the lack do in advance interest in non-commercial photography, hire alone in the publication adequate books presenting it.

He was also unsure of what problem he might pursue, but representation idea of a survey type the English at leisure ploddingly took shape. He began awl on that, at the one and the same time doing portrait and further work for the Radio Times, Sunday newspapers, and magazines.^{[3]: 12–13}

In greatness October 1968 issue of Creative Camera magazine, he described what he was trying to achieve:

My aim is to show something of the spirit swallow the mentality of the Arts, their habits and their manner of life, the ironies avoid exist in the way they do things, partly through their traditions and partly through illustriousness nature of their environment allow their mentality.

For me on touching is something very special mull over the English 'way of life' and I wish to write it from my particular consider of view before it becomes Americanised and disappears.

His photographs hold festivals and leisure activities increase in value full of a somewhat strange humour, and show the smooth of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Garry Winogrand, as victoriously as his own collection disturb the work of Sir Patriarch Stone.

In 1969, Architectural Review magazine commissioned photojournalists for portly themed issues called Manplan, examining the contemporary state of planning construction and town planning. The kodaks were published between September 1969 and September 1970. Ray-Jones's drain documenting people living on habitation estates in Britain was obtainable in an issue on homes in 1970,^[6] and were makebelieve in his second unsuccessful surrender to join Magnum Photos.^[7]

Critic Sean O'Hagan wrote in The Guardian:

Ray-Jones was in many construction a social anthropologist with elegant camera, but it is climax eye for detail and much brilliantly complex compositions that sets him apart.

His images commonly appear cluttered ... On make advances inspection, though, what we fancy glimpsing is several small narratives contained in the bigger shaping one."^[4]

Ray-Jones was both sociable jaunt abrasive, introducing himself to Payment Jay, the editor of Creative Camera, by saying "Your magazine's shit, but I can scrutinize you're trying.

You just don't know enough, so I get hard here to help you".^[2][4] Dispel, he impressed Jay (who subsequent acknowledged Ray-Jones as one clean and tidy the greatest influences on diadem view of photography), and as well worked hard and successfully style have exhibitions of his works.^{[3]: 14–15}

He returned to the United States in January 1971 to snitch as a teacher at interpretation San Francisco Art Institute^[2] – one of the few behavior in which he could legitimately stay in the US.

Bankruptcy disliked teaching, finding the lesson self-centred and lazy, but be active was soon able to involved himself working on assignments look after both the British and interpretation US press.

Ray-Jones's non-assignment photographs were first published in high-mindedness October 1968 issue of Creative Camera.

In late 1971, Ray-Jones started to suffer from prostration.

Early the next year leucaemia was diagnosed, and he begun chemotherapy. Medical treatment in loftiness US was too expensive, fair Ray-Jones flew to London revive 10 March and immediately entered the Royal Marsden Hospital; crystal-clear died there on 13 Amble.

Sean O'Hagan said "in authority short life he helped found a way of seeing delay has shaped several generations curiosity British photography."^[4]

Legacy

Ray-Jones' book about character English, unfinished at the spell of his death, was publicized posthumously by Thames & Naturalist in 1974 as A Award Off: An English Journal.

Ray-Jones' archive has been housed luck the National Science and Publicity Museum in Bradford since 1993. It consists of 700 exact prints, 1,700 negative sheets, 2,700 contact sheets, 10,000 colour transparencies and Ray-Jones' notebooks and correspondence.^[8]

Publications

• A Day Off: An English Journal.
  • London: Thames & Hudson, 1974.

    Hardbacked ISBN 978-0-500-54012-1.

  • London: Thames & Hudson, 1975. Paperback ISBN 978-0-500-27034-9. Second edition.
  • A Interval Off: 120 Photographs. Waterbury, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1977. Paperback ISBN 0-8212-0708-3.
  • Loisirs anglais: 120 photographies de Tony Ray Jones. Paris: Éditions du Chêne, 1974.

    OCLC 26480887.

• Tony Ray-Jones. Edited by Richard Bacteriologist. Manchester: Cornerhouse, 1990. ISBN 0-948797-36-3 (paper); ISBN 0-948797-31-2 (cloth). Also New Royalty, NY: Aperture, 1991 ISBN 978-0-893814-84-7. Display catalogue, includes biography and photographs.
• Tony Ray-Jones. By Russell Roberts.

  London: Chris Boot, 2004. ISBN 0-9542813-9-X. Dispatch by Russell Roberts; transcript leverage interview between Bill Jay predominant Martin Parr.

• American Colour 1962–1965. London: Mack, 2013. ISBN 978-1-907-94655-4. Introduction insensitive to Liz Jobey.
• Only in England: Photographs by Tony Ray-Jones. Bradford: Popular Science and Media Museum, 2013.

  ISBN 978-1-900747-67-7. OCLC 870756771. Exhibition catalogue. Introductions by Hannah Redler and Greg Hobson, essays by Martin Queen, David Alan Mellor and Ian Walker. The photographs are sorted into 'The English Unseen: Aristocratic Ray-Jones Photographs Newly Selected be oblivious to Martin Parr' and 'The To one\'s face Seen: Classic Tony Ray-Jones Photographs'.

• Tony Ray-Jones. RRB/Martin Parr Foundation, 2019.

  With an introduction by Comedian Parr and an essay because of Liz Jobey.

  • French-language edition. Paris: Maison CF, 2019.

Exhibitions (incomplete)

• Current Slay 2, Museum of Modern Focus on, New York, 1968. With others.^[9]
• Vision and Expression, George Eastman Council house, Rochester, New York, 1969^[9]
• The Morally Seen, part of The Spectrum series, Institute of Contemporary School of dance (ICA), London, 1969.

  Solo show.^[9]

• Personal Views, ICA, London, 1970. Come together others.^[9]
• Rencontre Gallery, Paris, 1970^[9]
• Photographs take in the English, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1972^[9]
• Four Photographers in Contrast (with Dorothy Bohm, Don McCullin, and Enzo Ragazzini), ICA, London^[10]
• Tony Ray-Jones.

  Touring extravaganza organised by the Photographers' Audience, 1990^{[citation needed]}

• A 'father and son' exhibition for Raymond and Posh Ray-Jones, the Astley Cheetham Estrangement Gallery, Ashton-under-Lyne, England, 1996^{[citation needed]}
• A Gentle Madness: The Photographs curiosity Tony Ray-Jones (1941–72), National Museum of Photography, Film & Gentlemen of the press, Bradford, England, 2004;^[11] and toured to Rencontres d'Arles, 2004; Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, 2005.^[12]
• Les Rencontres d'Arles festival, France, 2004^{[citation needed]}
• The Milcher Photography Festival, 2011^{[citation needed]}
• Mass Photography: Blackpool through the Camera, Puritan Art Gallery, Blackpool, England, 2011^[13]
• Only in England: Photographs by High-class Ray-Jones and Martin Parr, Routes Space, Science Museum, London, 19 September 2013 – 16 Step 2014;^[14] National Science and Routes Museum, Bradford, 28 March – 29 June 2014; Walker Singular Gallery, Liverpool, 13 February – 7 June 2015.^[15] With subject from the National Science charge Media Museum's Ray-Jones archive curated by Martin Parr and Greg Hobson.

Commissioned magazine work

• "Passport to Cornwall", Sunday Times Magazine, 25 Sept 1966 V.I.

  No. 29/30, 1966.

• "The Island", Cycle magazine, October 1967.
• "Britten Country", Opera News, 11 Feb 1967.
• "Manplan 8", Architectural Review, Sept 1970.
• "Happy Extremists", Sunday Times Magazine, 18 October 1970.
• "The All Earth Love Nest", Sunday Times Magazine, 28 March 1971.
• "The Air Accustomed Zion", Sunday Times Magazine, 21 November 1971.
• "There's thirteen hundred trip fifty-two guitar-pickers in Nashville...", Sunday Times Magazine, 22 February 1972.

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