Amateur Photographer

Jane Bown The Observer

Source:   The Torrey Canyon oil disaster of 1967 was one of many reportage stories Bown covered in her life  

Pensioners protesting outside Margaret Thatcher's home in1980

‘She would often require one camera, one lens, one roll of film and a paltry 15 minutes with her subject’

Often considered to be the definitive portrait of Samuel Beckett, this is one of just five frames

Since the term was first coined back in the1950s by Henri Cartier-Bresson, the ‘decisive moment' has been exhaustively studied and explored by numerous photographers and writers. But there are

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