You beat me to it! My copy of American Colour will be with me in a day or 2.
Chris On 11 November 2013 20:48, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > I've mentioned before about the great exhibition that's on at the moment at > the Science Museum in London of photos by Tony Ray-Jones. Chris M and I went > to see it a couple of weeks ago - my second time - I love TR-J's work. > > Anyway, there's an audio slideshow of some of the work on the BBC News site > here, if you're lucky enough to be able to run it in your jurisdiction: > <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-24826739> > > The exhibition details are here: > <http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/Plan_your_visit/exhibitions/onl > y_in_england.aspx> > > If you can't see the slideshow you might enjoy looking at some of his > better-known photos at the Science and Society photo library: > <http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?searchtxtkeys=Tony%20Ray-Jon > es> > > A new book of his photos is also recently published, and I received my copy > last week. It is called American Colour, and shows pictures he took in > America before he returned to the UK to start the work for which he became > well-known. The book is superb - you can see all his influences coming into > play, and his gradual development. There's a review here: > <http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/05/american-colour-tony-ray-jones > -review> > > I think I own a copy of all the books by or about him, but they have all now > become very valuable. "A Day Off" for example will set you back the best > part of 900 quid on Amazon.co.uk. So if you like to collect photo books as a > little potential investment, this would be a good one. > > B > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
