Jane Bown was an English photographer who worked for The Observer newspaper from 1949 until her death in 2014. Using available light, she took black and white portraits of famous people like Henri Cartier-Bresson, John Lennon, Orson Welles, and Margaret Thatcher that received widespread critical acclaim for their compassionate and gentle perspective. After studying photography at Guildford School of Art, Jane Bown had a long career photographing subjects from all walks of life for her newspaper work.

1. Jane Bown
JaneHope Bown
Born: 13th March1925
Died: 21st December 2014.
English Photographer, who
worked for The Observer
newspaper from 1949.
Her portraits, primarily photographed in black and white and only usingavailable
light at the time of the shot, received widespread critical acclaim around the world.
Her work wasdescribed at the end of her life to be “a kind of English Cartier-
Bresson’and from a website that she ‘photographed the great and the good, the rich
and the poor, the ordinary and extraordinary withacompassionate and gentle eye.’
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/dec/21/jane-
bown-a-life-in-photography-in-pictures
JaneBown studied photography at Guildford Schoolof Art, after she received and
entitled to an education grant from her chart corrector with the WRNS, which
included arole in plotting the D-Day invasion. And taughtby Ifor Thomas.
In her career afterwardsin photography, she photographed many subjects including
HenriCartier-Bresson, John Lennon, Orson Welles, MargaretThatcher, Eve Arnold
and many more.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Bown
Orson Welles, 1951 John Lennon, 1963