Tony Ray-Jones

Tony Ray-Jones (February 26, 1941 - March 13, 1972) was a British art photographer.

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February 26 - 1941 - March 13 - 1972 - British - Photographer

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He was the youngest son of Raymond Ray-Jones (1886-1942), a painter and engraver. Tony Ray-Jones started his education in London, where he concentrated on graphics and photography. In the early 1960s he obtained a scholarship that enabled him to join Yale University, in the United States, where he met art director Alexey Brodovitch and photographer Joel Meyerowitz, who influenced his later work.

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Raymond Ray-Jones - 1886 - 1942 - Painter - Engraver - London - 1960s - Yale University - United States - Art director - Alexey Brodovitch - Photographer - Joel Meyerowitz

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Between 1965 and 1970, he lived in Britain, where he tried to extensively document the way of life of the English... "before it became too Americanised". His photographs of festivals and leisure activities are full of a somewhat surreal humour and show the influence of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Garry Winogrand, Homer Sykes and Ray-Jones own collection of the work of Sir Benjamin Stone. Part of this work was published posthumously in his book A Day Off ? An English Journal (Thames & Hudson, 1974).

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1965 - 1970 - Britain - Henri Cartier-Bresson - Garry Winogrand - Homer Sykes - Sir Benjamin Stone - Thames & Hudson - 1974

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Tony Ray-Jones returned to the United States in the early 1970s to work as an art professor at San Francisco's Institute of Art. He died shortly afterward, in London, from leukaemia.

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1970s - San Francisco - Leukaemia

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In 2004, a major retrospective show was held at the Bradford National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, in England. A major retrospective book was also published in 2004: Tony Ray-Jones: A Key Figure of British Photography and the British Way of Life, Revealed Afresh.

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Bradford - National Museum of Photography, Film and Television - England

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