Jane Bown
(1925-2014), PhotographerSitter in 7 portraits
Artist associated with 73 portraits
Born in 1925, Bown worked as a chart corrector in the Wrens, 1944-46. She was a student photographer at Guildford School of Art, 1946-50. Bown started her photographic career 56 years ago when her portrait of Bertrand Russell appeared in The Observer. Admired for her straightforward, naturally posed, black and white portraits usually taken with available light. Her published books include The Gentle Eye (1980) which was accompanied by a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, 1980-81, Women of Consequence (1986), Men of Consequence (1987) and Faces (2000). In 1995 Bown was awarded a CBE for her outstanding contribution to photography.
Jennie Lee with unknown sitters (probably including Aneurin Bevan)
by Jane Bown
bromide print, 1957
NPG x28626
Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell; Aneurin Bevan
by Jane Bown
bromide print, 1957
NPG x28619
by Jane Bown
gelatin silver print, 1962
NPG x133109
Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Baron Fisher of Lambeth; John Carmel Heenan
by Jane Bown
bromide print, 1968
NPG x28618
Arthur Michael Ramsey, Baron Ramsey of Canterbury
by Jane Bown
bromide print, 1968
NPG x28635
Noël Coward; Dame Elizabeth Taylor; Richard Burton and an unknown woman
by Jane Bown
bromide print, 1968
NPG x28637
by Jane Bown
bromide print on card mount, circa 1970
NPG x199413
by Jane Bown, for Camera Press: London: UK
bromide press print, 1971
NPG x184260
Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu)
by Jane Bown
bromide print on card mount, 1971
NPG x28633
by Jane Bown
bromide print on card mount, 1972
NPG x28616
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Marion Bond
11 October 2017, 21:47
Jane (Mrs Moss) was my neighbour in Alresford. She took a lovely b&w photo of me for my 50th birthday and signed it. Naturally I was thrilled. I paid for the printing and she kept the negatives for her archive. Actually she took quite a few but I chose to enlarge 2 only.