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Jane Bown

British photographer (1925-2014) · United Kingdom · On the map · Artists · Died at 89

Jane Hope Bown CBE was an English photographer who worked for The Observer newspaper from 1949. Her portraits, primarily photographed in black and white and using available light, received widespread critical acclaim and her work has been described by Lord Snowdon as "a kind of English Cartier-Bresson."

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