Colin Jones (photographer)

For other uses, see Colin Jones (disambiguation).

Colin Jones (8 August 1936 – 22 September 2021) was an English ballet dancer-turned-photographer and prolific photojournalist of post-war Britain.[1]

Jones documented facets of social history as diverse as the vanishing industrial working lives of the North East coalfields (Grafters), delinquent Afro-Caribbean youth in London (The Black House), hedonistic 1960s 'Swinging London'[2] with pictures of The Who early in their career, the 1963 race riots in Alabama, Soviet Leningrad, and remnants of a rural Britain now lost to history.[3]

  1. ^ Crookston, Peter (1 October 2021). "Colin Jones obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  2. ^ Anna Burnside, "Sixties uncovered", Sunday Times (London, England), 20 May 2007, p.1
  3. ^ Schofield, Jack, 1947- (1983). How famous photographers work. Amphoto, New York, N.Y pp. 32–25