A revealing portrait of this most self-effacing but great portrait photographer emerges through conversation, anecdote and candid reflection. In the almost six decades that Jane Bown (b 1925) worked for the Observer newspaper, she became renowned for insightful, highly individualistic portraits of the famous. Some of these portraits are now regarded as classics of the genre - Samuel Beckett, Queen Elizabeth, the Beatles, Bertrand Russell, Mick Jagger, Margaret Thatcher, etc. ... (Full plot summary below)
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A revealing portrait of this most self-effacing but great portrait photographer emerges through conversation, anecdote and candid reflection. In the almost six decades that Jane Bown (b 1925) worked for the Observer newspaper, she became renowned for insightful, highly individualistic portraits of the famous. Some of these portraits are now regarded as classics of the genre - Samuel Beckett, Queen Elizabeth, the Beatles, Bertrand Russell, Mick Jagger, Margaret Thatcher, etc. Bown's great mantra is, 'photographers should neither be seen nor heard'. Diminutive in stature and with an all-important ability to blend into the background, Bown was the antithesis of the Fleet Street, macho photojournalist. This feature documentary is a beautiful portrait of both Jane Bown, her determination to succeed in an almost exclusively male world, and her process of working as a photographer. It includes interviews with Rankin, Nobby Clark and Don McCullin and her many iconic photographs of the great and the good (and a few bad) of the twentieth and twenty first centuries.
Leave your thoughts about Looking for Light: Jane Bown.
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Tim RobeyThis is a compact, pleasing, and thoroughly welcome documentary about Bown, a small but indomitable woman who became a mainstay of celebrity portraiture almost by accident. |
| Financial TimesAntonia QuirkeAn empathetic, melancholy documentary about the photographer, now 89, who started on the paper in 1963 with an assignment to photograph Jean Cocteau. |
| GuardianLeslie FelperinIt is an excellent, intelligent, and unfussily traditional documentary about a gifted artist who photographed many key 20th-century figures ... |
| Times (UK)Kate MuirThere is no great revelation and the documentary can be a tad lumbering, but Bown's photographs are a glorious gallery trip from a cinema seat. |
| Empire MagazinePatrick PetersFor anyone interested in the art of "getting the picture", this is a must. |
| Total FilmJosh WinningThis gentle, no-frills doc eschews music to let the images do the talking - Bown's striking snaps are the real stars. |
| Time OutCath ClarkeBown doesn't give much away in this doc. What you want to know is what her subjects were really like ... But you'll get no gossip here. |
| Independent (UK)Geoffrey MacnabThe doc deals sensitively with the extraordinary circumstances of her childhood and features illuminating contributions from journalists and fellow photographers. |
| The SpectatorDeborah RossIt's a quiet, moving portrait of Jane Bown, the longstanding Observer photographer who has taken all those iconic pictures you know but probably didn't know she'd taken. |
| ScotsmanSiobhan SynnotUnfortunately Bown herself is not terribly revealing. |
