iylshowcase: BackFocus – Colin JonesColin Jones is an ex-dancer for the English Royal Ballet. A form
iylshowcase: BackFocus – Colin JonesColin Jones is an ex-dancer for the English Royal Ballet. A form so concerned with figures, the individual, their principles, you can see how he gravitated to icons of the 20th century. Individuals that represent something massive, symbols for larger things that preoccupy the collective memory. He substantially and simultaneously contributed to and captured the zeitgeist.He then created pictures of people, the Northern and unemployed, the young and black and new in London, The Who. All are marginalised groups – a holistic view of a society at unrest. Published in Life, National Geographic and in broadcast, his work is prolific in scope and in coverage.Roger Daltrey of the Who; captured by Colin Jones (1966) His work is inextricably linked to documentation but in that it is a fascination with life. Not a romanticism but in as it was and as he saw it in the streets of Newcastle, London, across the world. The people in his photographs are happy, sad, surviving, learning and look different, all together in the frame.His photographs are a presentation. It is the traditional removal from a scene and the presentation of subjects that places them firmly in front and him looking at them. It is an emphasis on clarity that is mirrored in the way his subjects look at you.He has covered a wide range of subjects, all natural, no facade.See more of his work here -- source link