| Names: | Born: Holroyd Anthony Ray-Jones
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| | Dates: | 1941, 7 June - 1972, 13 March | | Born: | UK, Somerset, nr. Wells, Wookey | | Died: | UK, London | | Active: | England |
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.
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| Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer. | | 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
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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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