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| Jane Bown by an Unknown Photographer |
Jane Bown - 'Some people take pictures. I find them' by Germaine Greer
From the website: . . . but Bown is a far cry from being England's Annie Leibovitz. She never stage-manages her subjects, brings neither props nor lights nor assistants to an assignment, just one of her 40-year-old Olympus OM1 cameras, with a 50mm F2.5 lens, possibly in her shopping bag. She waits while her subject is being interviewed, observing all the time, then quickly snaps three rolls of black and white film. The subject is taken momentarily unawares, the session over before there has been time to assume a public mask.
