Tony Armstrong Jones In The East End
Tony Armstrong Jones (1930-2017) is remembered today as Lord Snowdon, husband to Princess Margaret, yet – before all that royal hullabaloo took over his life – he was a jobbing photographer in his twenties and took these photographs of the East End, as published in his book LONDON in 1958.
Cheshire St
Sclater St Market, Sunday Morning
Bomb site, St Mathias School, Bethnal Green
Rathbone St Market, Canning Town
Rathbone St Market, Canning Town
Garage hand, Stepney
The Magpie & Stump, Cable St
The Railway Tavern, West India Dock Rd – open 6am to 8am
Cafe in East India Dock Rd
Wens Cafe, Bethnal Green
Tattoo parlour
Tower of London
Smithfield Market
Christmas in Cable St
Pub in Cable St
Juke Box Dance
Deuragon Arms, Hackney
Bethnal Green Rd
Photographs copyright © Estate of Tony Armstrong Jones
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Stunning work. The last image so poignant.
Great pictures
What were all those hands for ????!!!
Wonderful, atmospheric photos of the London of my childhood. Valerie
I disregard the strength of his name. Dramatic B/W studies so much power here, could memorize one. Even here I love his work photo craft at its best. Poet John
Looks like they were work gloves gone hard. Something to do with whatever is in the pots below maybe?
Each image, a novel. The boy reading intently in the midst of the busy market — the image totally captures how it feels to disappear into a paragraph of text. And speaking of words, notice the
“heaven/hell” graphics above the nativity scene, with two men looking on. Their eyes locked on the illuminated scene, the words above are lost and superfluous.
An amazing series – endless shadings, moods and narratives.
Many thanks.
Greetings from Boston,
GA, very moving photos of post-war London, particularly “Bomb site, St. Mathias School” and “Wens Cafe,” Bethal Green.
Didn’t Anthony Armstrong Jones romance Princess Margaret in his flat in East London before they announced their engagement? Not sure.
400 ASA black and white film pushed to 800 or 1600.
You didn’t make use of flash. Lovely grainy effects!
Pity is he never got around to showing some of the squalor his sister in law subjects had to suffer, me for one, poor old Bethnal Green,never like seeing these type of pictures,to many bad thoughts.