Pony’s Eye

Found a very inspiring book of black and white photos by Jane Bown entitled
‘Unknown Bown 1947-1967′. Might be partly a nostalgia trip of my mostly
forgotten childhood, but still I found the photographs so excellent, so
restful……you just want to gaze at them. In 1947 she borrowed £50 from
her aunt and bought a secondhand Rolleiflex with a Tessar lens. The skin
tones in her photos are so beautiful, it left me wondering if digital can
ever achieve the same wonderful quality. In some ways hope the answer is
‘no’, because it would be nice to think that the overwhelming convenience of
digital can still be surpassed by film in some areas.Her very first
photograph which pleased her professor at Guilford School of Art was of a
cow’s eye. So I thought I’d try something similar with the eye of my recent
pony shot. Jane Bown worked for the Observer, doing mostly portraits for
many years. However, one can’t help feeling she regarded this as ‘work’,
whereas of the photos in her book, she says, ‘These pictures are the real
me.’

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