Tony Ray-Jones

After his father's death, Tony's mother took the family to Tonbridge in Kent, to Little Baddow (near Chelmsford, Essex), and then to Hampstead in London.

In the early 1960s he obtained a scholarship that enabled him to join Yale University School of Art[4] on the strength of photographs he had taken in north Africa from a taxi window.

[3]: 8  Although only 19 on his arrival at Yale, Ray-Jones' talent was obvious, and in 1963 he was given assignments for the magazines Car and Driver and Saturday Evening Post.

[3]: 10  Ray-Jones also got to know a number of New York "street photographers", such as Joel Meyerowitz, a fellow Brodovich student at the time.

[7] Critic Sean O'Hagan wrote in The Guardian: Ray-Jones was in many ways a social anthropologist with a camera, but it is his eye for detail and often brilliantly complex compositions that sets him apart.

"[4]Ray-Jones was both sociable and abrasive, introducing himself to Bill Jay, the editor of Creative Camera, by saying "Your magazine's shit, but I can see you're trying.

[3]: 14–15 He returned to the United States in January 1971 to work as a teacher at the San Francisco Art Institute[2] – one of the few ways in which he could legally stay in the US.