Bill Jay

William 'Bill' Jay (12 August 1940 – 10 May 2009) was a photographer, writer on and advocate of photography, curator, magazine and picture editor, lecturer, public speaker and mentor.[1][2] He was the first editor of "the immensely influential magazine"[1] Creative Camera, 1968–1969;[3][4] and founder and editor of Album, 1970–1971.[3][4] He is the author of more than 20 books on the history and criticism of photography, and roughly 400 essays, lectures and articles.[3][4] His own photographs have been widely published, including a solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[3] He is known for his portrait photographs of photographers.[5]

Life and work

Jay was born in Maidenhead, England, attended grammar school and completed two years at Berkshire College of Art.[1]

Jay was the first editor of "the immensely influential magazine"[1] Creative Camera, 1968–1969;[4] and founder and editor of Album, 1970–1971, for all twelve issues.[4] To supplement working on Creative Camera, for short periods he was European manager of Globe Photos, an international picture agency, and picture editor of The Daily Telegraph Magazine.[3][4][1] He was the first Director of Photography at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London,[3][1] and founded and directed the photo-study centre there.

In 1972 he moved to the United States[5] to enrol at the University of New Mexico under Beaumont Newhall and Van Deren Coke.[3] He graduated with an MA on the Victorian landscape photographer Francis Bedford.[1] Afterward, he founded the Photographic Studies program at Arizona State University, where he was professor of art history and taught photography history and criticism for 25 years.[3][5][1]

He gave hundreds of lectures on photography as a guest at colleges, universities, art schools and camera clubs in Britain, Europe and the United States.[3][1]

Jay was twice married and divorced, and had three daughters, Juliet, Louise and Hannah.[1] He retired in the late 1990s, leaving Mesa, Arizona, for Ocean Beach near San Diego, then to Sámara on the Nicoya peninsula, Costa Rica, in 2008, He died in 2009, aged 68.[1] His archive is held at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona.[1]

Publications (selected)

Collections

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Hopkinson, Amanda (5 August 2009). "Bill Jay: Photographer who found a niche as an advocate of his art". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  2. ↑ Davies, Lucy (11 September 2013). "Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr: Photographing the English". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Jay, Bill; Hurn, David (1997). On Being a Photographer: A Practical Guide. Lenswork Publishing. ISBN 978-1888803068.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Brittain, David; Cahill, Clinton (2013). Inside Photography: Ten Interviews with Editors. Stockport: Dewi Lewis. pp. 21–32. ISBN 978-1-907893-46-9.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Jay, Bill". Museum of Contemporary Photography. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
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