"I am not an artist, I'm just a hack," late photographer Jane Bown is said to have told Queen Elizabeth at her CBE ceremony in 1995, more than a decade before photographing the monarch Glenn ...

The first exhibition at the newly renamed King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace takes the photographers as seriously as their high-born sitters.

Jane Bown photographed cats for pleasure and the images occupied a special place in her work. She was drawn to their natural elegance, economy, and self-containment – the very qualities that ...

"Queen Elizabeth II selected Jane Bown to take a photographic portrait ... AT 96 Bown said to Queen Elizabeth in 1995, "I am not an artist, I'm just a hack," after the queen, who was presenting ...

Jane Bown was a photographer who captured portraits ... She studied at Guildford School of Art, which had just begun a full-time photography course, run by the "brilliant, gifted and inspirational ...

Jane Bown, far right, is shown taking pictures of ... Her other subjects included ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev and artist Francis Bacon. Several of her pictures are in the National Portrait ...

Examining the tensions between image and memory and workplace and home, this thoughtful profile of legendary Observer portrait photographer Jane Bown is full ... in the art of "getting the picture ...

Jane Bown captured the Amalfi Grocer when on holiday in Italy. It was published on page 8 of the Observer on 29 August 1954, and is a classic example of a standalone photograph, published during the ...

Jane Bown spoke often about her subjects, in her usual staccato sentences, especially if they were boring (Robert Redford was one of those) but rarely about her art. She said once: “The best ...