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Through the Lens of Janet Stone - Portraits, 1953-1979 (Hardcover)
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Through the Lens of Janet Stone - Portraits, 1953-1979 (Hardcover)
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Janet Stone's photograph albums feature informal portraits from the
mid-twentieth century of many of the leading cultural figures and
personalities of the day. The wife of the distinguished engraver
Reynolds Stone established a kind of literary salon in the idyllic
setting of the Old Rectory at Litton Cheney in West Dorset. Here
their wide circle of friends could visit, work and flourish as
Janet photographed them. Included between these pages are portraits
of Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, John Piper, Iris Murdoch, John
Bayley, C. Day-Lewis, Jill Balcon, Kenneth Clark, Freya Stark,
Siegfried Sassoon, Willa Muir, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Frances
Partridge as well as Janet's husband Reynolds and her family.
Although not a technical photographer, Janet instinctively knew the
best moment to click the shutter, thus often capturing her subjects
off-guard and at their most informal. In this way we see picnics by
the tennis court, John Bayley trying on a headscarf, or a young
Daniel Day-Lewis dressed up as a knight. Others are portrayed
reading or relaxing in the gardens, drink in hand. These unique
portraits give a beguiling insight into a special set of
circumstances: an idyllic place and time and a group of people
drawn together by two contrasting but complimentary personalities,
the shy genius of Reynolds and the outgoing style and glamour of
Janet Stone.
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