Tony Ray-Jones was educated at Christ's Hospital, which he hated.
11 Facts About Tony Ray-Jones
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Tony Ray-Jones studied at the London School of Printing, where he concentrated on graphic design.
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Eager to use photography for more creative purposes, Tony Ray-Jones went to the Design Lab held by the art director Alexey Brodovitch in the Manhattan studio of Richard Avedon; Brodovitch's gruff manner and high standards won respect and hard work from Tony Ray-Jones and others.
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Tony Ray-Jones got to know a number of New York "street photographers", such as Joel Meyerowitz, a fellow Brodovich student at the time.
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Tony Ray-Jones graduated from Yale in 1964 and photographed the United States energetically until his departure for Britain in late 1965.
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Tony Ray-Jones was unsure of what subject he might pursue, but the idea of a survey of the English at leisure gradually took shape.
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Tony Ray-Jones began work on that, at the same time doing portrait and other work for the Radio Times, Sunday newspapers, and magazines.
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Tony Ray-Jones's work documenting people living on housing estates in Britain was published in an issue on housing in 1970, and were included in his second unsuccessful submission to join Magnum Photos.
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Tony Ray-Jones was in many ways a social anthropologist with a camera, but it is his eye for detail and often brilliantly complex compositions that sets him apart.
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Tony Ray-Jones disliked teaching, finding the students self-centred and lazy, but he was able to busy himself working on assignments for both the British and the US press.
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Tony Ray-Jones' archive has been housed at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford since 1993.