josef chladek

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Tony Ray-Jones - A day off, Thames and Hudson, 1974, London

 

I want my pictures to bite like the images in Bunuel’s films which disturb you while making you think. I want them to have poignancy and sharpness but with humour on top.

My aim is to communicate something of the spirit and the mentality of the English, their habits and their way of life, the ironies that exist in the way they do things, partly through tradition and daily anachronisms in an honest and descriptive manner, the visual aspect being directed by the content. For me there is something very special and rather humorous about the “English way of life” and I wish to record it from my particular point of view before it becomes more Americanized. We are at an important stage in our history, having in a sense just been reduced to an island or defrocked and, as De Gaulle remarked, left naked. Nudity is perhaps more revealing of personality than a heavily clothed figure. (Tony Ray-Jones in the foreword to the book)

Hardcover, cloth bound with dustjacket.

Pages: 120
Place: London
Year: 1974
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Size: 24 x 27 cm (approx.)







 Tony Ray-Jones - A day off (Front)

Tony Ray-Jones - A day off (Front)

 Tony Ray-Jones - A day off (Spine)

Tony Ray-Jones - A day off (Spine)

 Tony Ray-Jones - A day off (Back)

Tony Ray-Jones - A day off (Back)




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I want my pictures to bite like the images in Bunuel’s films which disturb you while making you think. I want them to have poignancy and sharpness but with humour on top.

My aim is to communicate something of the spirit and the mentality of the English, their habits and their way of life, the ironies that exist in the way they do things, partly through tradition and daily anachronisms in an honest and descriptive manner, the visual aspect being directed by the content. For me there is something very special and rather humorous about the “English way of life” and I wish to record it from my particular point of view before it becomes more Americanized. We are at an important stage in our history, having in a sense just been reduced to an island or defrocked and, as De Gaulle remarked, left naked. Nudity is perhaps more revealing of personality than a heavily clothed figure. (Tony Ray-Jones in the foreword to the book)

Hardcover, cloth bound with dustjacket.

Pages: 120
Place: London
Year: 1974
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Size: 24 x 27 cm (approx.)