The Observer [a UK Sunday broadsheet] and The Guardian [the sister
weekday broadsheet] are perhaps the most literate, well researched and
well written daily newspapers in the UK even though they are definitely
left of centre in UK political terms [extreme left in US terms]. As a
long time photojournalist Jane Bown was no doubt one of The Observer's
greatest stars. As cited on the BBC's web site, Observer editor John
Mulholland called her "part of the Observer's DNA".
Film camera photography lost one of its finest today.
jh
On 12/21/2014 5:53 PM, ozlangur@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On 22 Dec 2014, at 8:42 am, John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Was she always a film camera user or did she go digital in her later life ?
"I'm not very particular about equipment: I use Olympus OM1s and have about a dozen,
all purchased secondhand more than 40 years ago, and while I have many lenses, I really
only use either an 85mm or 50mm one now. In the same way, I'm not all that particular
about film or paper.... Rather than use a light meter, I have a setting I like - 1/60sec
at f/2.8 - and usually make the picture work around this... I think I timed it perfectly,
really: at the Guildford School of Art I learnt how to prepare glass-plate negatives.
Now, film is almost obsolete. I could no more contemplate using a digital camera than
travel to the moon."
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2007/oct/27/photography.photographyfeatures31
(via The Online Photographer (comments))
Cheers,
Marc
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