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The book focuses on photographs taken between 1966 and 1969, when Ray-Jones, driven by curiosity, traveled across the country to document English social customs and what he considered a vanishing way of life. This small but distinctive body of work is part of a shift in British photography that prioritized artistic vision over commercial success. In a short time, Ray-Jones succeeded in establishing a personal style. He constructed complex images against a typically English backdrop, where the spaces between the elements of the image were as important as the main subject itself.
Ray-Jones honed his skills alongside a generation of street photographers he met while living in New York in the mid-1960s. These photographers included Garry Winogrand, Joel Meyerowitz, and others associated with the circle of the legendary art director of *Harper’s BAZAAR*, Alexey Brodovitch. Their photos defined the era by using the street as their setting. Ray-Jones applied this new way of seeing to his native England and photographed his observations as they had never been seen before.
RRB Photobooks & Martin Parr Foundation, 2019
30 x 25 cm
128 pages
ISBN: 9781916057500
The book focuses on photographs taken between 1966 and 1969, when Ray-Jones, driven by curiosity, traveled across the country to document English social customs and what he considered a vanishing way of life. This small but distinctive body of work is part of a shift in British photography that prioritized artistic vision over commercial success. In a short time, Ray-Jones succeeded in establishing a personal style. He constructed complex images against a typically English backdrop, where the spaces between the elements of the image were as important as the main subject itself.
Ray-Jones honed his skills alongside a generation of street photographers he met while living in New York in the mid-1960s. These photographers included Garry Winogrand, Joel Meyerowitz, and others associated with the circle of the legendary art director of *Harper’s BAZAAR*, Alexey Brodovitch. Their photos defined the era by using the street as their setting. Ray-Jones applied this new way of seeing to his native England and photographed his observations as they had never been seen before.
RRB Photobooks & Martin Parr Foundation, 2019
30 x 25 cm
128 pages
ISBN: 9781916057500
