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> Bill Again wrote:
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>> I'm not very particular about equipment: I use Olympus OM1s and have
>> about a dozen, all purchased second-hand more than 40 years ago,
>
> Hmm, the M-1, the precursor to the OM1, was introduced in 1972. So in
2012
> the OM1 will have been 40 years old. Yet this alleged photographer
bought
> about 12 of them, second hand, more than five years before they were on
> the market.
>
> I wouldn't put too much faith in anything she says, since obviously it's
> all made up in order to create a good story.
Here's a quote about Jane Bown's career so far....
"The Observer published its first Jane Bown photograph in December 1949,
beginning a romance between Britain's oldest Sunday paper and the
country's
most loved photographer that still flourishes.
Since that time, Jane has given us the most astoni****ng variety of
****traits: politicians, royalty, film stars, directors, writers,
academics,
comics, artists, dancers, athletes, bishops, models, nuns and ordinary
people (fans, onion sellers, tramps, children) whose faces we suddenly
learn
to see and even become haunted by, because she looks at them with the same
democratic respect, curiosity and love.
Jane's work is immediately recognisable, particularly her penetrating
****traits taken over the past 50 years.
By 1980 she was renowned enough for the National ****trait Gallery to hold
a
one-person exhibition of her work and there have been no fewer than seven
published collections of her photographs.
Jane's approach to taking photographs is as refre****ngly unpretentious as
she is herself - she works quickly and discreetly, using only available
light, usually in black and white and without any assistants. In 1985 she
was awarded an MBE [and in 1995 a CBE for work in photography]. When asked
by the Queen what she did, Jane's characteristically modest reply was,
"I'm
a hack". "
You might be right. I shall ignore her.
Idiot.
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