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'''Cambridge Jones''' is a British celebrity portrait [[photographer]] |
'''Cambridge Jones''' is a British celebrity portrait [[photographer]] from [[Wales]]. His subjects, in a series of books and exhibitions, include hundreds of well-known actors and musicians. |
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==Early life and education== |
==Early life and education== |
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Jones was [[adopted]] at the age of two<ref name=artdaily>{{cite web | title=Photographs for Charity by Cambridge Jones at Getty Images Gallery in London | website=[[Artdaily]] | url=https://artdaily.cc/news/24039/Photographs-for-Charity-by--Cambridge-Jones-at-Getty-Images-Gallery-in-London | access-date=19 May 2023}}</ref> |
Jones was [[adopted]] at the age of two.<ref name=artdaily>{{cite web | title=Photographs for Charity by Cambridge Jones at Getty Images Gallery in London | website=[[Artdaily]] | url=https://artdaily.cc/news/24039/Photographs-for-Charity-by--Cambridge-Jones-at-Getty-Images-Gallery-in-London | access-date=19 May 2023}}</ref> He was obsessed with photography from the age of 14, trying to convince famous people to pose for him.<ref name=hartford2009/> |
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He was obsessed with photography from the age of 14, trying to convince famous people to pose for him.<ref name=hartford2009/> |
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He attended [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church college]] at [[Oxford University]], from 1985<ref name=cco/> to 1988, where he earned a degree in [[politics, philosophy and economics]] (PPE).<ref name=hartford2009/> |
He attended [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church college]] at [[Oxford University]], from 1985<ref name=cco/> to 1988, where he earned a degree in [[politics, philosophy and economics]] (PPE).<ref name=hartford2009/> |
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==Career== |
==Career== |
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His first exhibition ''Face The Music'' was held in 2004 at The Proud Galleries in London, featured pictures of 100 celebrities who chose and commented on a favourite piece of music which visitors could listen to on a pair of headphones.<ref name=hartford2009/><ref name=obs2004>{{cite news|title=Observer Music Monthly: Sound in vision: Does the Prime Minister's favourite song involve a plea to God for mercy? |publisher=The Observer|date=15 August 2004|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/250497563|id={{ProQuest|250497563}} |url-access=subscription}}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | In 2004 he was commissioned to create a body of work published as a book, ''Off Stage: 100 Portraits Celebrating the RADA Centenary'', to celebrate 100 years of [[RADA]] ([[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]]). The photographs include [[John Hurt]], [[Alan Rickman]], [[Sheila Hancock]], [[Edward Woodward]], [[Sir Ian Holm]], [[Robert Lindsay (actor)|Robert Lindsay]], [[Joan Collins]], [[Tom Courtenay]], [[Warren Mitchell]], [[Imelda Staunton]], [[June Whitfield]], [[Richard Briers]], [[Jane Horrocks]], [[Glenda Jackson]], [[Juliet Stevenson]], [[Jonathan Pryce]], [[Kenneth Branagh]], [[Ioan Gruffud]], [[Susannah York]], [[Timothy Spall]], [[Liza Tarbuck]], and [[Michael Kitchen]].<ref name=radabook>{{cite web | title=Off Stage: 100 Portraits Celebrating the RADA Centenary, by Cambridge Jones [blurb] | website=LensCulture | url=https://www.lensculture.com/books/4795-off-stage-100-portraits-celebrating-the-rada-centenary | access-date=19 May 2023|quote=With a foreword by Lord Attenborough, the book includes an introduction by the Observer writer Miranda Sawyer, as well as interviews with all the actors. }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=Off stage : 100 portraits celebrating the RADA centenary |author= Jones, Cambridge| author-link= Cambridge Jones | via=[[Internet Archive]] | date=2005 | url=https://archive.org/details/offstage100portr0000jone/mode/2up | access-date=19 May 2023}}</ref> |
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Jones has photographed eight British prime ministers: [[Sir Edward Heath]], [[Baroness Thatcher]], [[Sir John Major]], [[Tony Blair]], [[Gordon Brown]], [[David Cameron]], [[Theresa May]], and [[Boris Johnson]]; as well as royals [[Queen Elizabeth II]], [[King Charles III]] (then Prince Charles). He has also done a body of work commissioned by [[Prince Harry]].{{cn|date=May 2023}} |
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| ⚫ | In 2004 he was commissioned to create a body of work published as a book, ''Off Stage: 100 Portraits Celebrating the RADA Centenary'', to celebrate 100 years of [[RADA]] ([[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]]). The photographs include [[John Hurt]], [[Alan Rickman]], [[Sheila Hancock]], [[Edward Woodward]], [[Sir Ian Holm]], [[Robert Lindsay (actor)| |
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In 2014, for the exhibition ''26 Characters at The Story Museum'' (at the [[Story Museum]] in [[Oxford]]), Cambridge photographed 26 authors (one for each letter of the alphabet), including [[Philip Pullmann]], dressed as their favourite book characters. He also interviewed them.<ref name=story2014>{{cite interview | interviewer-last=MacAlister | interviewer-first=Katherine | title=Character reference - Interview with photographer Cambridge Jones | website=Oxford Mail | date=6 March 2014 |first=Cambridge| last=Jones| url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/11057264.character-reference---interview-photographer-cambridge-jones/ | access-date=19 May 2023}}</ref><ref name=bbc2014/> |
In 2014, for the exhibition ''26 Characters at The Story Museum'' (at the [[Story Museum]] in [[Oxford]]), Cambridge photographed 26 authors (one for each letter of the alphabet), including [[Philip Pullmann]], dressed as their favourite book characters. He also interviewed them.<ref name=story2014>{{cite interview | interviewer-last=MacAlister | interviewer-first=Katherine | title=Character reference - Interview with photographer Cambridge Jones | website=Oxford Mail | date=6 March 2014 |first=Cambridge| last=Jones| url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/11057264.character-reference---interview-photographer-cambridge-jones/ | access-date=19 May 2023}}</ref><ref name=bbc2014/> |
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In 2007 [[The Prince's Trust]] commissioned a work which was published as ''Inspired By Music'' in 2009, which was sponsored by [[Starbucks]] and on sale in every Starbucks coffee store.<ref name=hartford2009/> It features personal reflections by 36 celebrities as well as four ordinary people helped by The Prince's Trust,<ref name=blurb>{{cite web | last1=Collins | first1=Phil | last2=Charles | first2=Prince | last3=Jones | first3=Cambridge |title= Inspired by Music| website=Blurb | date=26 November 2009 | url=http://www.blurb.com/b/1013358-inspired-by-music | access-date=20 May 2023}}</ref> about musical lyrics that inspired them. [[Ozzy Osbourne]], [[Take That]] members,<ref name=hartford2009>{{cite web | last=Hartford | first=Maggie | title=Inspired by music | website=[[Oxford Mail]] | date=16 July 2009 | url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/4495990.inspired-music/ | access-date=20 May 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Jones | first=Cambridge | author2=Prince's Trust | title=Inspired by Music | publisher=Shoehorn | year=2009 | isbn=978-1-907149-01-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2I0qQwAACAAJ | access-date=20 May 2023 | page=}}</ref> [[Benedict Cumberbatch]], and [[Damian Lewis]] are among those featured in the book. There is a foreword was written by Prince Charles and an introduction by [[Phil Collins]],<ref>{{cite web | title=Inspired by Music | website=Damian Lewis | date=1 July 2009 | url=https://www.damian-lewis.com/tag/phil-collins | access-date=20 May 2023}}</ref> and it contains over 80 photos by Jones.<ref name=blurb/> |
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In 2010 he was commissioned by then Mayor of London [[Boris Johnson]] to create an exhibition of celebrity photographs which were intended to motivate Londoners to participate in a new [[climate change]] initiative led by him. Featured in the exhibition were [[Vivienne Westwood]], [[Richard E Grant]], [[Bear Grylls]], [[Rory Bremner]], [[Laura Bailey (model)| |
In 2008 he photographed a number of children for [[Barnardo's]] child adoption agency, in an exhibition called "Home Time", aimed at helping to find homes for hundreds of children waiting for adoption. The exhibition was held at the [[Getty Images Gallery]] in [[London]].<ref name=artdaily/> |
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In 2010 he was commissioned by then Mayor of London [[Boris Johnson]] to create an exhibition of celebrity photographs which were intended to motivate Londoners to participate in a new [[climate change]] initiative led by him. Featured in the exhibition were [[Vivienne Westwood]], [[Richard E Grant]], [[Bear Grylls]], [[Rory Bremner]], [[Laura Bailey (model)|Laura Bailey]], [[Michael Sheen]], [[Adrian Lester]], [[Mariella Frostrup]], [[Jane Horrocks]], [[Emma Thompson]], [[Rowan Williams]], and [[Alan Titchmarsh]].<ref>{{cite web | author=London SE1 website team | title=Boris Johnson opens climate change City Hall photo exhibition | website=London SE1 | date=9 February 2010 | url=https://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/4338 | access-date=20 May 2023}}</ref> |
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Other notable commissions include those from [[Nelson Mandela]], and his alma mater [[Christ Church, Oxford]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Portfolios | website=Cambridge Jones Photography | url=http://www.cambridgejones.com/aboutCJ.html | access-date=20 May 2023}}</ref><ref name=cco>{{cite journal|url=https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Christ%20Church%20Matter~Issue%2018.pdf| title=Editorial (etc.)| journal=Christ Church Matters|publisher= Oxford University| issue=18|date = 2006|quote= Michaelmas Term 2006... In our Portrait, old member articles have been added to commissioned pieces by Christ Church experts in specific areas and brought alive by fascinating illustrations, including specially commissioned photography by Cambridge Jones (1985), to make a book that we hope you will treasure.}}</ref> Other people photographed by Jones include South African anti-apartheid campaigners [[Bishop Tutu]]<ref>{{cite web | last=Gelder | first=Sarah van | title=Desmond Tutu and the Power of Apology | website=YES! Magazine | date=11 January 2022 | url=https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2022/01/11/desmond-tutu-power-of-apology | access-date=20 May 2023}}</ref> and [[Helen Suzman]].<ref>{{cite web | last=Tran | first=Mark | title=Helen Suzman, South African anti-apartheid campaigner, dies at 91 | website=[[The Guardian]] | date=1 January 2009 | url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jan/01/southafrica-race | access-date=20 May 2023}}</ref> |
Other notable commissions include those from [[Nelson Mandela]], and his alma mater [[Christ Church, Oxford]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Portfolios | website=Cambridge Jones Photography | url=http://www.cambridgejones.com/aboutCJ.html | access-date=20 May 2023}}</ref><ref name=cco>{{cite journal|url=https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Christ%20Church%20Matter~Issue%2018.pdf| title=Editorial (etc.)| journal=Christ Church Matters|publisher= Oxford University| issue=18|date = 2006|quote= Michaelmas Term 2006... In our Portrait, old member articles have been added to commissioned pieces by Christ Church experts in specific areas and brought alive by fascinating illustrations, including specially commissioned photography by Cambridge Jones (1985), to make a book that we hope you will treasure.}}</ref> Other people photographed by Jones include South African anti-apartheid campaigners [[Bishop Tutu]]<ref>{{cite web | last=Gelder | first=Sarah van | title=Desmond Tutu and the Power of Apology | website=YES! Magazine | date=11 January 2022 | url=https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2022/01/11/desmond-tutu-power-of-apology | access-date=20 May 2023}}</ref> and [[Helen Suzman]].<ref>{{cite web | last=Tran | first=Mark | title=Helen Suzman, South African anti-apartheid campaigner, dies at 91 | website=[[The Guardian]] | date=1 January 2009 | url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jan/01/southafrica-race | access-date=20 May 2023}}</ref> |
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His work has been likened to that of famous American portrait photographer [[Annie Leibovitz]].<ref name=prnewswire/><ref name=playbill2010/> |
His work has been likened to that of famous American portrait photographer [[Annie Leibovitz]].<ref name=prnewswire/><ref name=playbill2010/> |
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In 2014 he was selected as the [[BBC]]'s artist in residence and was invited by the BBC to talk on several shows.<ref name=bbc2014>{{YouTube |9YbQqqUatXg|BBC Radio 2 1 of 3}} 23 June 2014. "Cambridge Jones as BBC Radio2 Artist In Residence (1 of 3 progs) talking about his latest book & 3 current exhibitions: The Story Museum in Oxford, The Art Room in The Mall Galleries, London, and Jack White exhibition in Bologna, Italy."</ref> |
In 2014 he was selected as the [[BBC]]'s artist in residence and was invited by the BBC to talk on several shows.<ref name=bbc2014>{{YouTube |9YbQqqUatXg|BBC Radio 2 1 of 3}} 23 June 2014. "Cambridge Jones as BBC Radio2 Artist In Residence (1 of 3 progs) talking about his latest book & 3 current exhibitions: The Story Museum in Oxford, The Art Room in The Mall Galleries, London, and Jack White exhibition in Bologna, Italy."</ref> |
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==Other activities == |
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Due to his own tough start in life, Jones has chosen to work with children in many guises. In 2009 he was made an ambassador to [[The Prince's Trust]], and has worked regularly with [[Barnardo's]].{{cn|date=May 2023}} In 2008<ref>{{cite web | title=Barnardos – Jack Davenport | website=Jack Davenport - Unofficial Website: NEWS | date=4 August 2008 | url=https://goodboysparky.wordpress.com/tag/barnardos/ | access-date=19 May 2023}}</ref> he photographed a number of children for [[Barnardo's]] child adoption agency, in an exhibition called "Home Time", aimed at helping to find homes for hundreds of children waiting for adoption. The exhibition was held at the [[Getty Images Gallery]] in [[London]].<ref name=artdaily/> |
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He was asked to travel to Lesotho for [[Prince Harry]] to produce a body of work illustrating the work Prince Harry's [[Sentebale]] charity does with HIV+ kids in Lesotho. The work was exhibited and introduced by Prince Harry as a fundraising event for Sentebale.{{cn|date=May 2023}} |
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==Exhibitions== |
==Exhibitions== |
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===''Talking Pictures''=== |
===''Talking Pictures''=== |
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''Talking Pictures'' toured the world from 2010. It featured famous people of Welsh descent, including [[Anthony Hopkins]], [[Matthew Rhys]], [[Michael Sheen]], [[Sian Phillips]], [[Eddie Izzard]], [[Rhys Ifans]], [[Jonathan Pryce]], [[Terry Jones]], [[Damian Lewis]], [[Helen McCrory]], [[Robert Plant]], [[Owen Sheers]], [[Bonnie Tyler]], [[Shirley Bassey]], [[Emma Griffiths]], [[David Gray (musician)| |
''Talking Pictures'' toured the world from 2010. It featured famous people of Welsh descent, including [[Anthony Hopkins]], [[Matthew Rhys]], [[Michael Sheen]], [[Sian Phillips]], [[Eddie Izzard]], [[Rhys Ifans]], [[Jonathan Pryce]], [[Terry Jones]], [[Damian Lewis]], [[Helen McCrory]], [[Robert Plant]], [[Owen Sheers]], [[Bonnie Tyler]], [[Shirley Bassey]], [[Emma Griffiths]], [[David Gray (British musician)|David Gray]], and [[Bryn Terfel]].<ref name=playbill2010>{{cite web | last=Blank | first=Matthew | title=Photo call: Jonathan Pryce, Michael Sheen, Eddie Izzard, Anthony Hopkins Featured in Cambridge Jones Photo Exhibit in NYC | website=Playbill | date=22 September 2010 | url=https://playbill.com/article/photo-call-jonathan-pryce-michael-sheen-eddie-izzard-anthony-hopkins-featured-in-cambridge-jones-photo-exhibit-in-nyc-com-172007 | access-date=19 May 2023| quote=Cambridge Jones' "Talking Pictures" appears at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts through Nov. 27. The exhibit will launch in early 2011 at the [[Chateau Marmont]] before moving to The [[Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery]] March 3.}}</ref> The exhibition locations included the [[Wales Millennium Centre]] in [[Cardiff]];<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/galleries/talking-pictures-exhibition/|title=Talking Pictures by Cambridge Jones| website=[[BBC Wales]]}}</ref> [[Canary Wharf]] lobby, London (16 September-1 October 2010);<ref>{{cite web | title=Cambridge Jones: Talking Pictures | website= New Exhibitions | date=1 October 2010 | url=https://www.newexhibitions.com/e/36413 | access-date=19 May 2023}}</ref> [[New York Public Library for the Performing Arts]] in the [[Lincoln Center]] (23 September – 27 November 2010); [[Chateau Marmont]] (early 2011); and the [[Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery]] (March 2011).<ref name=playbill2010/><ref name=prnewswire>{{Cite web|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/celebrity-portraits-from-britains-answer-to-annie-leibovitz-on-exhibit-at-the-los-angeles-municipal-art-gallery-barnsdall-art-park-march-3---april-24-2011-116732134.html|title=Celebrity Portraits From Britain's Answer to Annie Leibovitz on Exhibit at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park March 3 - April 24, 2011| first= Cambridge| last=Jones| website=PR Newswire}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Wales is where the heart is - Soundcheck | website=WNYC Studios | date=2010-09-20 | url=https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/soundcheck/segments/94832-wales-is-where-the-heart-is | access-date=2023-05-17| quote=''Talking Pictures: Portraits'', by Cambridge Jones, opens at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Plaza LeveOLobby at Lincoln Center on Thursday, September 23}}</ref> It was also organised by the [[Welsh Assembly Government]] to show at the [[Embassy of the United Kingdom, Washington, D.C.| British Embassy in Washington, DC]]; in [[Doha]], Qatar; the British Consulate in New York; and at the Contemporary Art Gallery in [[Chicago]].{{cn|date=May 2023}} The exhibition was mounted at Canolfan Y Celfyddydau in Aberystwyth from 2 February 2013 to 13 March 2013 by the Welsh Assembly.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk/exhibitions/cambridge-jones-talking-pictures|title=Cambridge Jones: Talking Pictures |website= Aberystwyth Arts Centre}}</ref> |
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===Other exhibitions=== |
===Other exhibitions=== |
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His work has been exhibited in galleries around the world, including: |
His work has been exhibited in galleries around the world, including: |
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*London - The Proud Galleries (Face The Music, 2004) <ref name= |
*London - The Proud Galleries (Face The Music, 2004) <ref name=obs2004/> |
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*[[Bologna]], Italy – Portraits of [[Jack White]] and |
*[[Bologna]], Italy – Portraits of [[Jack White]] and [[The White Stripes]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.arte.it/calendario-arte/bologna/mostra-jack-white-white-stripes-american-roots-9039|title=Jack White / White Stripes: American Roots|website=Arte}}</ref><ref name=bbc2014/> |
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*London – The Mall Galleries ‘Face Time’ with The Art Room ''2014 (Bill Nighy)''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.meer.com/en/9611-face-time|title=Face Time|date=6 June 2014|website=Meer}}</ref> |
*London – The Mall Galleries ‘Face Time’ with The Art Room ''2014 (Bill Nighy)''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.meer.com/en/9611-face-time|title=Face Time|date=6 June 2014|website=Meer}}</ref> |
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*London – Mayor of London Buildings ''(Environmental Portraits for Boris Johnson)''<ref>{{cite web | author=London SE1 website team | title=Boris Johnson opens climate change City Hall photo exhibition | website=London SE1 | date=2010-02-09 | url=https://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/4338 | access-date=2023-05-17}}</ref> |
*London – Mayor of London Buildings ''(Environmental Portraits for Boris Johnson)''<ref>{{cite web | author=London SE1 website team | title=Boris Johnson opens climate change City Hall photo exhibition | website=London SE1 | date=2010-02-09 | url=https://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/4338 | access-date=2023-05-17}}</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 20:54, 26 April 2024
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| Born | Oxford, U.K. |
| Education | Christ Church, Oxford University |
| Occupation | Photographer |
| Website | cambridgejones |
Cambridge Jones is a British celebrity portrait photographer from Wales. His subjects, in a series of books and exhibitions, include hundreds of well-known actors and musicians.
Early life and education
[edit]Jones was adopted at the age of two.[1] He was obsessed with photography from the age of 14, trying to convince famous people to pose for him.[2]
He attended Christ Church college at Oxford University, from 1985[3] to 1988, where he earned a degree in politics, philosophy and economics (PPE).[2]
Early jobs
[edit]Cambridge moved to London, starting work in market research. He established his own company whose speciality was TV focus groups. After this he set up two bars in Soho. After 10 years in London he sold up and moved to a Greek village with his family for a while.[2]
Career
[edit]His first exhibition Face The Music was held in 2004 at The Proud Galleries in London, featured pictures of 100 celebrities who chose and commented on a favourite piece of music which visitors could listen to on a pair of headphones.[2][4]
In 2004 he was commissioned to create a body of work published as a book, Off Stage: 100 Portraits Celebrating the RADA Centenary, to celebrate 100 years of RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art). The photographs include John Hurt, Alan Rickman, Sheila Hancock, Edward Woodward, Sir Ian Holm, Robert Lindsay, Joan Collins, Tom Courtenay, Warren Mitchell, Imelda Staunton, June Whitfield, Richard Briers, Jane Horrocks, Glenda Jackson, Juliet Stevenson, Jonathan Pryce, Kenneth Branagh, Ioan Gruffud, Susannah York, Timothy Spall, Liza Tarbuck, and Michael Kitchen.[5][6]
In 2014, for the exhibition 26 Characters at The Story Museum (at the Story Museum in Oxford), Cambridge photographed 26 authors (one for each letter of the alphabet), including Philip Pullmann, dressed as their favourite book characters. He also interviewed them.[7][8]
In 2007 The Prince's Trust commissioned a work which was published as Inspired By Music in 2009, which was sponsored by Starbucks and on sale in every Starbucks coffee store.[2] It features personal reflections by 36 celebrities as well as four ordinary people helped by The Prince's Trust,[9] about musical lyrics that inspired them. Ozzy Osbourne, Take That members,[2][10] Benedict Cumberbatch, and Damian Lewis are among those featured in the book. There is a foreword was written by Prince Charles and an introduction by Phil Collins,[11] and it contains over 80 photos by Jones.[9]
In 2008 he photographed a number of children for Barnardo's child adoption agency, in an exhibition called "Home Time", aimed at helping to find homes for hundreds of children waiting for adoption. The exhibition was held at the Getty Images Gallery in London.[1]
In 2010 he was commissioned by then Mayor of London Boris Johnson to create an exhibition of celebrity photographs which were intended to motivate Londoners to participate in a new climate change initiative led by him. Featured in the exhibition were Vivienne Westwood, Richard E Grant, Bear Grylls, Rory Bremner, Laura Bailey, Michael Sheen, Adrian Lester, Mariella Frostrup, Jane Horrocks, Emma Thompson, Rowan Williams, and Alan Titchmarsh.[12]
Other notable commissions include those from Nelson Mandela, and his alma mater Christ Church, Oxford.[13][3] Other people photographed by Jones include South African anti-apartheid campaigners Bishop Tutu[14] and Helen Suzman.[15]
Recognition
[edit]His work has been likened to that of famous American portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz.[16][17]
In 2014 he was selected as the BBC's artist in residence and was invited by the BBC to talk on several shows.[8]
Exhibitions
[edit]Talking Pictures
[edit]Talking Pictures toured the world from 2010. It featured famous people of Welsh descent, including Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Rhys, Michael Sheen, Sian Phillips, Eddie Izzard, Rhys Ifans, Jonathan Pryce, Terry Jones, Damian Lewis, Helen McCrory, Robert Plant, Owen Sheers, Bonnie Tyler, Shirley Bassey, Emma Griffiths, David Gray, and Bryn Terfel.[17] The exhibition locations included the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff;[18] Canary Wharf lobby, London (16 September-1 October 2010);[19] New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in the Lincoln Center (23 September – 27 November 2010); Chateau Marmont (early 2011); and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (March 2011).[17][16][20] It was also organised by the Welsh Assembly Government to show at the British Embassy in Washington, DC; in Doha, Qatar; the British Consulate in New York; and at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Chicago.[citation needed] The exhibition was mounted at Canolfan Y Celfyddydau in Aberystwyth from 2 February 2013 to 13 March 2013 by the Welsh Assembly.[21]
Other exhibitions
[edit]His work has been exhibited in galleries around the world, including:
- London - The Proud Galleries (Face The Music, 2004) [4]
- Bologna, Italy – Portraits of Jack White and The White Stripes[22][8]
- London – The Mall Galleries ‘Face Time’ with The Art Room 2014 (Bill Nighy)[23]
- London – Mayor of London Buildings (Environmental Portraits for Boris Johnson)[24]
- Oxford – 26 Characters at The Story Museum (2014)[25][7][8]
- London – BAFTA portraits (Portraits from the RADA Centenary Collection used in BAFTA Awards)
- Moscow – Red Square State Museum (House of Photography) (Royal Power, Politics & Hollywood by Cambridge Jones)[26]
- London – Saatchi Gallery (Katherine Jenkins Portrait for Great Ormond Street) (Organised by GOSH)
- London – Getty Images Gallery (The RADA Centenary Portraits)[27]
- Brighton – Persona at the Theatre Royal (Persona Portraits)[28]
- Nashville – Country Music Hall of Fame (Country Couture Exhibition from The Manuel Series)[29]
- Nashville – Tinney Contemporary Gallery (The Image Makers : Manuel & Cambridge)[30]
Books
[edit]- Off Stage: 100 Portraits Celebrating the RADA Centenary, 2005 (ISBN 095468432X) with a foreword by Sir Richard Attenborough[5]
- Christ Church – A Portrait of The House, 2007 (ISBN 1903942462)
- Inspired By Music (for the Prince's Trust), 2009 (ISBN 1907149015)
- Face The Music Printed by The Proud Gallery as a one-off catalogue
- 26 Characters (ISBN 978-0-9569918-1-2)
- Super Power Agency (ISBN 9 781838 256807)
- Fashion & Style in Photography Moscow House of Photography 2011 (ISBN 978-5-93977-062-0)
DVD
[edit]- Cambridge Jones Showreel[31]
- A Wider Sky (2005): Collaboration with composer Adrian Munsey & Cambridge Jones using photography & music[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Photographs for Charity by Cambridge Jones at Getty Images Gallery in London". Artdaily. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f Hartford, Maggie (16 July 2009). "Inspired by music". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
- ^ a b "Editorial (etc.)" (PDF). Christ Church Matters (18). Oxford University. 2006.
Michaelmas Term 2006... In our Portrait, old member articles have been added to commissioned pieces by Christ Church experts in specific areas and brought alive by fascinating illustrations, including specially commissioned photography by Cambridge Jones (1985), to make a book that we hope you will treasure.
- ^ a b "Observer Music Monthly: Sound in vision: Does the Prime Minister's favourite song involve a plea to God for mercy?". The Observer. 15 August 2004. ProQuest 250497563.
- ^ a b "Off Stage: 100 Portraits Celebrating the RADA Centenary, by Cambridge Jones [blurb]". LensCulture. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
With a foreword by Lord Attenborough, the book includes an introduction by the Observer writer Miranda Sawyer, as well as interviews with all the actors.
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- ^ a b c d BBC Radio 2 1 of 3 on YouTube 23 June 2014. "Cambridge Jones as BBC Radio2 Artist In Residence (1 of 3 progs) talking about his latest book & 3 current exhibitions: The Story Museum in Oxford, The Art Room in The Mall Galleries, London, and Jack White exhibition in Bologna, Italy."
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- ^ a b Jones, Cambridge. "Celebrity Portraits From Britain's Answer to Annie Leibovitz on Exhibit at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park March 3 - April 24, 2011". PR Newswire.
- ^ a b c Blank, Matthew (22 September 2010). "Photo call: Jonathan Pryce, Michael Sheen, Eddie Izzard, Anthony Hopkins Featured in Cambridge Jones Photo Exhibit in NYC". Playbill. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
Cambridge Jones' "Talking Pictures" appears at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts through Nov. 27. The exhibit will launch in early 2011 at the Chateau Marmont before moving to The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery March 3.
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Talking Pictures: Portraits, by Cambridge Jones, opens at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Plaza LeveOLobby at Lincoln Center on Thursday, September 23
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- ^ Cambridge Jones – Show reel
