| Names: | Born: Holroyd Anthony Ray-Jones
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| | Dates: | 1941, 7 June - 1972, 13 March | | Born: | UK, Somerset, nr. Wells, Wookey | | Active: | England | | Gender: | Male |
Ray-Jones had a brief, but memorable, career in photography, working as a freelance photographer in New York, San Francisco and London before dying of leukemia at the age of 31.
[Courtesy of Pam Roberts]Preparing biographies
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Ehrlich, Richard, 1990, Tony Ray-Jones: A Retrospective View, (Cornerhouse Publications) isbn-10: 0948797312 isbn-13: 978-0948797316 [Δ]
Ray-Jones, Tony, 1974, A Day Off: 120 Photographs, (New York Graphic Society) isbn-10: 0821207083 isbn-13: 978-0821207086 [Δ]
Roberts, Russell, 2005, Tony Ray-Jones, (Chris Boot) isbn-10: 095428139X isbn-13: 978-0954281397 [Δ]
If you feel this list is missing a significant book or article please let me know - Alan - alan@luminous-lint.com | |
Family history
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| Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer. | Show on this site | Go to website | | Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. | | Go to website | Grove Art Online (www.groveart.com) has a biography of this artist.
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Tony Ray-Jones
http://www.weepingash.co.uk ...
Well structured and clearly thought through background material by Roy Hammans. It is provided under a Creative Commons copyright.
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The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
• Beaton, Cecil & Buckland, Gail 1975 The Magic Eye: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company) p.259 [Useful short biographies with personal asides and one or more example images.]
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [Includes a short biography on Tony Ray-Jones.]
• Witkin, Lee D. and Barbara London 1979 The Photograph Collector’s Guide (London: Secker and Warburg) p.218-219 [Long out of print but an essential reference work - the good news is that a new edition is in preparation.]
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