Colin Jones followed an unusual path into photography having been a dancer with the Royal Ballet until his late twenties. It was among his colleagues in the company that he began to take photographs and through dancing that he learnt of the tremendous physical labour involved in creating something of beauty. While on tour in the north of England he began to take pictures of the mining communities and it was not long before he had given up dancing to begin his new career, landing a job at the Observer alongside photographers such as Philip Jones Griffiths and Don McCullin. Colin Jones` subjects are working people miners, shipbuilders, dockers and dancers. This book comprises Jones` best work from to date. Timeless and beautiful, it is a revealing tale of industrial post-war Britain, and a moving portrait of poverty and physical hardship endured with dignity.
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Colin Jones es profesor en la universidad de Queen Mary de Londres. Es un reconocido historiador británico experto en Francia, especializado en el siglo XVIII, la Revolución Francesa e historia de la medicina. Entre sus libros destacan The Medical World of Early Modern France (1997), The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon (2002), Paris: Biography of a City (2004, galardonado con Enid MacLeod Prize) y The Smile Revolution: In Eighteenth-Century Paris (2014). Es fellow de la British Academy y Past President de la Royal Historical Society.