“Where digital was once the go-to medium in photography, chosen for its ease and cheapness, photographers are now returning to film, in both their personal and commercial work. We examine why.”
In which Meyerowitz talks a lot about his working with Tony Ray-Jones and the new book on his life’s work, Where I Find Myself is published by Laurence King and costs £45. You can see more of Meyerowitz’s work at joelmeyerowitz.com.
You need to register with the magazine to read the whole articles, but it’s free and appears not to have any strings attached.
Reproduced here in full, with permission, is the complete text of Ian Walker’sresearch into perhaps the most iconic of all Tony Ray-Jones’s photographs ‘Beachy Head Boat Trip, 1967’.
This article first appeared in Source magazine in 2004. Together with an article in The Guardian newspaper the same year, it inspired me to start the section of this website devoted to Ray-Jones as so little information about him appeared on the web at that time. It was recently updated and reproduced in the catalogue that accompanied the exhibition ‘Only in England’, held at The Science Museum London in 2013. It is the version from that catalogue that appears here.Continue reading “Ray-Jones: Amazing Perfection”
An excellent overview of the recent exhibition (September 2013- March 2014) of work by Tony Ray-Jones. The first to be held at the London Science Museum Media Space, a new area devoted to ‘photography and art’.
A review by Brian Human of Only in England, an exhibition of work by Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr, held at the Science Museum, London, 2013-2014.Continue reading “Only in England – Review”
A Day Off: and English journal, the first book of work by Tony Ray-Jones
Reproduced in full here is the introduction to Ray-Jones’ first and ground-breaking book ‘A Day Off‘, the book that he did not live long enough to see published. Written by Ainslie Ellis, a contributing editor for The British Journal of Photography at the time, and used in that journal two years previously, it gives an excellent overview of Ray-Jones’ life and work.
Peter Marshall is a London-based photographer and educator whose excellent documentary work may be seen here and here.
He also runs the extremely informative My London Diary site.
This essay is taken from a presentation given by him in Poland in 2005.
Creative Camera, Issue 52 October 1968, featuring the work of Tony Ray-Jones
As far as I can ascertain, the first time that non-assignment photographs by Tony Ray-Jones were published in the UK was in the October 1968 issue of Creative Camera magazine, then under the editorship of Bill Jay.
The magazine featured on the cover one of the photographs Ray-Jones had made during his stay in America and the article comprised a statement by him, together with a comment on the work by Frank Charlton. These are reproduced in full below.
