A studio portrait of Jane Bown as a childPhotograph: Jane BownJane at college at Guildford School of Art, c1947Photograph: Jane BownJane in her 20s, circa 1950, after she had just started out as a photographer for the ObserverPhotograph: Jane Bown
The Tiller Girls, ATV Studio, Borehamwood, 1962Photograph: Jane BownCow Eye, Dartmoor, 1947Photograph: Jane BownRudolf Nureyev, 1964 Photograph: Jane BownJane (right) at a 1975 press conference at which Bette Davis announced she would make her stage debut at the London PalladiumPhotograph: Central Press/Getty ImagesJohn Lennon, West Ham, London, 1963Photograph: Jane BownMia Farrow, 1977Photograph: Jane BownFrancis Bacon at his studio, 1980Photograph: Jane Bown/The ObserverBjörk, 1995Photograph: Jane BownGypsy child, Kent, 1961Photograph: Jane BownJane at Herne Bay with another family, not her ownPhotograph: Jane BownJane Bown's motherPhotograph: Jane BownTorrey Canyon disaster, Cornwall, 1967Photograph: Jane BownJane Bown, self-portrait taken in mirror, circa 1986Photograph: Jane Bown
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