Dafydd Jones
My friend Dafydd Jones is part of a disappearing race, the social commentator with a still camera. British through and through, Dafydd parlayed a second-place award in a Sunday Times Magazine photo competition into a job shooting parties for The Tatler magazine during the Thatcher years.
Dafydd's black-and-white photography was a joy to see each month in the magazine. While his privileged subjects looked for the most part pretty absurd, it was clear they were more than a little awar e of it and were having a hell of a lot of fun anyway.
Coming to the U.S. in 1990 to work for Vanity Fair magazine and the New York Observer, Dafydd's pictures here reflected the great American obsession with status and the incongruous nature of life in New York, where so many visible worlds collide.
Jones is reluctant to shoot in color and is incapable of taking a "nice" picture while on assignment. His great achievement is in presenting telling moments very fully. There is plenty of information in Dafydd's pictures, but never anything more than meets the eye.
His own site can be had at http://www.btinternet.com/~dafyddk/.
