Charles Jones (photographer)
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- For other persons named Charles Jones, see Charles Jones (disambiguation).
Charles Harry Jones (1866- November 15, 1959) was a gardener and photographer, noted for his still lifes of fruit and vegetables.
Born in Wolverhampton, Charles Jones became a gardener working on a number of private estates in England from the 1890s. His gardening was noted for the quality of his flowerbeds and cultivation of fruits and vegetables. As a photographer, Jones was noted for his documentation of the fruits of his gardening labours. Jones also offered his services as a photographer to other gardeners.
His work was never exhibited in his lifetime and was largely was unknown (even to his family) until it was discovered by accident in 1981 at an Antiques Market in Bermondsey by Sean Sexton. Since then it has been displayed widely across the world and a monograph The Plant Kingdoms of Charles Jones was published in 1998.
His work shares a spare, objective aesthetic with the photographers Karl Blossfeldt, Wilson Addison Bentley, Josef Sudek and Edward Weston.
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- The Plant kingdoms of Charles Jones Sean Sexton and Robert Flynn Johnson Thames and Hudson, 1998. ISBN 0-500-54222-8
