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[[File:Paul Borduas.jpg|thumb|Artist Paul Borduas photographed by Ronny Jaques]]
[[File:Paul Borduas.jpg|thumb|Artist Paul Borduas photographed by Ronny Jaques]]
During the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s he worked as a photographer for magazines such as ''[[Harper's Bazaar]]'', ''[[Gourmet (magazine)|Gourmet]]'', ''[[Holiday (magazine)|Holiday]]'' and ''[[Town and Country (magazine)|Town and Country]]'' where he shot fashion, travel, food and [[lifestyle photography]]. In 1955 Edward Steichen selected three of his photographs for the world-touring Museum of Modern Art exhibition ''The Family of Man'' that was seen by 9 million visitors.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Hurm, Gerd, 1958-, (editor.) | author2=Reitz, Anke, (editor.) | author3=Zamir, Shamoon, (editor.) | title=The family of man revisited : photography in a global age | publication-date=2018 | publisher=London I.B.Tauris | isbn=978-1-78672-297-3 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | author1=Sandeen, Eric J | title=Picturing an exhibition : the family of man and 1950s America | publication-date=1995 | publisher=University of New Mexico Press | edition=1st | isbn=978-0-8263-1558-8 }}</ref> In one close-up, three Canadian girls with grim expressions stand at a wire fence against a field that extends to a high horizon on which, in front of an overcast sky stands a house as square and simple as a child's drawing. Another, also shot in Canada, shows a late night in a bar with bentwood chairs stacked in the foreground in silhouette, and at the bottom of the frame sit two men drinking, one of whom throws back his head in laughter, while a painting of a bare-breasted woman looks down on them. The third shows a broad tree-lined path in a Colombian park that is lit with dusty-filtered low slanting light against which, at centre, appears a park labourer who kneels in prayer as a priest in a cassock passes, his sun umbrella held aloft by his male companion.<ref>{{Cite book | author1=Steichen, Edward | author2=Sandburg, Carl | author3=Norman, Dorothy | author4=Lionni, Leo | author5=Mason, Jerry | author6=Stoller, Ezra | author7=Museum of Modern Art (New York) | title=The family of man: The photographic exhibition | publication-date=1955 | publisher=Published for the Museum of Modern Art by Simon and Schuster in collaboration with the Maco Magazine Corporation | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10809600 }}</ref>
During the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s he worked as a photographer for magazines such as ''[[Harper's Bazaar]]'', ''[[Gourmet (magazine)|Gourmet]]'', ''[[Holiday (magazine)|Holiday]]'' and ''[[Town and Country (magazine)|Town and Country]]'' for which he shot fashion, travel, food and [[lifestyle photography]], and for [[Maclean's]] during the mid-fifties he worked with writer Bruce Hutchison on a travel series, for example 'The Island'<ref>(1955) Bruce Hutchison 'The Island'. In ''Mclean's'' Vol. 68, no. 26 (Dec 24,1955), Maclean-Hunter, Toronto. OCLC: 82241515</ref>
Edward Steichen selected three of his photographs for the world-touring [[Museum of Modern Art]] exhibition ''The Family of Man'' that was seen by 9 million visitors.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Hurm, Gerd, 1958-, (editor.) | author2=Reitz, Anke, (editor.) | author3=Zamir, Shamoon, (editor.) | title=The family of man revisited : photography in a global age | publication-date=2018 | publisher=London I.B.Tauris | isbn=978-1-78672-297-3 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | author1=Sandeen, Eric J | title=Picturing an exhibition : the family of man and 1950s America | publication-date=1995 | publisher=University of New Mexico Press | edition=1st | isbn=978-0-8263-1558-8 }}</ref> In one close-up, three Canadian girls with grim expressions stand at a wire fence against a field that extends to a high horizon on which, in front of an overcast sky stands a house as square and simple as a child's drawing. Another, also shot in Canada, shows a late night in a bar with bentwood chairs stacked in the foreground in silhouette, and at the bottom of the frame sit two men drinking, one of whom throws back his head in laughter, while a painting of a bare-breasted woman looks down on them. The third shows a broad tree-lined path in a Colombian park that is lit with dusty-filtered low slanting light against which, at centre, appears a park labourer who kneels in prayer as a priest in a cassock passes, his sun umbrella held aloft by his male companion.<ref>{{Cite book | author1=Steichen, Edward | author2=Sandburg, Carl | author3=Norman, Dorothy | author4=Lionni, Leo | author5=Mason, Jerry | author6=Stoller, Ezra | author7=Museum of Modern Art (New York) | title=The family of man: The photographic exhibition | publication-date=1955 | publisher=Published for the Museum of Modern Art by Simon and Schuster in collaboration with the Maco Magazine Corporation | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10809600 }}</ref>


During his free time, Jaques took pictures at The Downbeat Club, a jazz club in New York, where he photographed celebrities such as [[Billie Holiday]], [[Duke Ellington]], [[Ben Webster]], [[Coleman Hawkins]], and [[Nat King Cole]].
During his free time, Jaques took pictures at The Downbeat Club, a jazz club in New York, where he photographed celebrities such as [[Billie Holiday]], [[Duke Ellington]], [[Ben Webster]], [[Coleman Hawkins]], and [[Nat King Cole]].

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Ronny Jaques (1910–2008) was a British photographer from London.

Early life

Charles Herbert Best in a portrait photograph by Ronny Jaques

The son of a bookmaker who died when he was run over by a train in the London Underground, during World War I Ronny Jaques was sent to boarding school in a coastal town on the Thames. The school was then moved to Bedford, in the middle of England, to avoid air raids. Jaques stayed there until the end of the war. When he was 9 years old, his mother closed his father's business and moved the family to Christie Lake in Canada.

In 1925, Jaques moved to New York City with his brother Louis. During that time, he worked for Henry L. Dougherty, the founder of a gas company. In 1932 both brothers quit their jobs and went bicycling through Europe for two years. Jaques then enrolled at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London where he focused on learning about photography. He Stayed in the school for about 8 months. Then he went to Canada where he opened the Ronny Jaques Studio at 24 Grenville Street in Toronto. In 1941, he closed the studio to focus on his photography career in NYC.

Photography career

Artist Paul Borduas photographed by Ronny Jaques

During the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s he worked as a photographer for magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, Gourmet, Holiday and Town and Country for which he shot fashion, travel, food and lifestyle photography, and for Maclean's during the mid-fifties he worked with writer Bruce Hutchison on a travel series, for example 'The Island'[1]

Edward Steichen selected three of his photographs for the world-touring Museum of Modern Art exhibition The Family of Man that was seen by 9 million visitors.[2][3] In one close-up, three Canadian girls with grim expressions stand at a wire fence against a field that extends to a high horizon on which, in front of an overcast sky stands a house as square and simple as a child's drawing. Another, also shot in Canada, shows a late night in a bar with bentwood chairs stacked in the foreground in silhouette, and at the bottom of the frame sit two men drinking, one of whom throws back his head in laughter, while a painting of a bare-breasted woman looks down on them. The third shows a broad tree-lined path in a Colombian park that is lit with dusty-filtered low slanting light against which, at centre, appears a park labourer who kneels in prayer as a priest in a cassock passes, his sun umbrella held aloft by his male companion.[4]

During his free time, Jaques took pictures at The Downbeat Club, a jazz club in New York, where he photographed celebrities such as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, and Nat King Cole.

After his death in September 2008, Ronny Jaques' photographs were published in the book Stolen Moments, by editor in chief of Town and Country, and close friend of Jaques, Pamela Fiori. The compilation of black and white photographs taken by Jaques are include portraits of Marlon Brando, Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Billie Holiday, Leonard Bernstein, Carson McCullers[5] and George S. Kaufman, W. H. Auden, Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza rehearsing “South Pacific” with Richard Rodgers on the piano, Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Leonard Bernstein, and Weegee at a crime scene, Robert Mitchum, George S. Kaufman and others.[6]

Unlike many of his contemporaries, Ronny Jaques was known to work alone and without any set-dressing.

Ronny Jaques: Labourer Andres Budge of Maniwaki carrying water buckets with a yoke on his shoulders at Mr. Kearney's logging camp in the Outaouais region on a day winter in 1943.

By the 1990s Ronny was living in Copenhagen, Denmark, with Lise, his third wife, and their two children, and Lulu, who was married with four children, and Jens-Louis. He died at the age of 98 in the summer of 2008.

Ronny Jaques' publications include: "Gourment's France" 1978, "Newfound" 1955, "The Island" 1955, "New Brunswick" 1956, "Greece and the Olympic Games" 1984

Books

  • (1984) Paul J Wade, Ronny Jaques. Greece and the Olympic Games. OCLC: 28012041
  • Jaques, Ronny; Micossi, Mario (1978), Gourmet's France, Gourmet

Bibliography

  • (2009) Pamela Fiori. Stolen Moments: The Photographs of Ronny Jaques. Glitterati Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-9801557-2-3

Articles

  • (1955) Bruce Hutchison. (Vol. 68, no.25) Newfoundland. Maclean-Hunter, Toronto. OCLC: 83495233
  • (1955) Bruce Hutchison. (Vol. 68, no.26) The Island. Maclean-Hunter, Toronto. OCLC: 82241515
  • (1956) Bruce Hutchison. (Vol. 69, no.1) New Brunswick. Maclean-Hunter, Toronto. OCLC: 78364079

References

  1. ^ (1955) Bruce Hutchison 'The Island'. In Mclean's Vol. 68, no. 26 (Dec 24,1955), Maclean-Hunter, Toronto. OCLC: 82241515
  2. ^ Hurm, Gerd, 1958-, (editor.); Reitz, Anke, (editor.); Zamir, Shamoon, (editor.) (2018), The family of man revisited : photography in a global age, London I.B.Tauris, ISBN 978-1-78672-297-3 {{citation}}: |author1= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Sandeen, Eric J (1995), Picturing an exhibition : the family of man and 1950s America (1st ed.), University of New Mexico Press, ISBN 978-0-8263-1558-8
  4. ^ Steichen, Edward; Sandburg, Carl; Norman, Dorothy; Lionni, Leo; Mason, Jerry; Stoller, Ezra; Museum of Modern Art (New York) (1955). The family of man: The photographic exhibition. Published for the Museum of Modern Art by Simon and Schuster in collaboration with the Maco Magazine Corporation.
  5. ^ Jaques, Ronny. "Carson McCullers, 1950, silver gelatin print. 10 ¼ x 10 in. Signed and annotated on reverse "Carson McCullers, Members of the Wedding, taken for Harpers Bazaar." Unique print". www.borngallery.com. Retrieved 2019-10-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ Jaques, Ronny; Fiori, Pamela (2008), Stolen moments : the photographs of Ronny Jaques (1st ed.), Glitterati, ISBN 978-0-9801557-2-3

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