Perhaps she will earn better than a CBE for her troubles. After all, if the
likes of Elizabeth Taylor and Judy Dench ["M" from a recent Bond flic] can
work up a DBE, perhaps Ms Bown could come away with at least the same. Let's
hope so.
jh
----- Original Message -----
From: "GeeBee" <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "OM List" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, 04 April, 2006 01:14 AM
Subject: [OM] OM1's on assignment
>
> I got this in my inbox this morning:
>
> Hi Graham,
>
> I don't know if the chaps on the OM mailing list would be interested, but
> there
> is a great piece on long time OM-1 user Jane Bown in yesterday's Observer
> Review. Her portrait of The Queen is across the whole of the centre
spread -
> 24
> x 17 inches in size, nothing else there at all. Jane herself is on the
front
> of
> the Review, photo by Eamon McCabe, no slouch himself when it comes to
> portraits.
>
> Jane is one of my favourite photographers, and is known for her discreet
> technique and her minimalist kit: OM-1, 85/2 and Tri-X. Most exposures are
> at
> 1/60 @ f2.8 and she apparently doesn't bother using a lightmeter.
>
> The text (but not the photo) is online at
> http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1744697,00.html
> However, with a Google News search I found a cropped vertical image fom
the
> same
> sesion (taken just a few seconds earlier or later, I'd estimate) at
>
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,18700224%255E912,00.html
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon.
>
>
> --
> http://www.simonevans.co.uk
>
>
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