Unknown Bown
Held at the Newsroom, 60 Farringdon Road, London, EC1 from Friday September 28 2007 to Friday January 25 2008, this exhibition comprises largely unseen pictures by legendary Observer photographer Jane Bown. Jane started her career at The Observer in 1949 and the exhibition features her non-portrait images from the 1940s, 50s and 60s offering a unique perspective on British social history. An accompanying book is available from 25 September 2007 at guardian.co.uk/books.

The Observer included a free Jane Bown print on Sunday September 2 and 9 2007.

Opening times to the exhibition:
Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm
Saturday 12pm to 4pm
Free admission.

Click here to view the Jane Bown gallery (flash)
To order an original signed print:
1. Click on the gallery link above then click on Enter
2. Browse through the gallery by year, clicking on the thumbnails to see larger images
3. When you find a photograph that you would like to buy, click on the 'Buy this print' link and follow the instructions next to the picture

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Rock:
A retrospective of Jane Bown's portraits of rock and pop stars was held at the Newsroom, 60 Farringdon Road, London, EC1 from September 10 to October 24 2003. For information contact 020 7886 9898 or newsroom@guardian.co.uk

About Jane Bown
The Observer published its first Jane Bown photograph in December 1949, beginning a romance between Britain's oldest Sunday paper and the country's most loved photographer that still flourishes.

Since that time, Jane has given us the most astonishing variety of portraits: politicians, royalty, film stars, directors, writers, academics, comics, artists, dancers, athletes, bishops, models, nuns and ordinary people (fans, onion sellers, tramps, children) whose faces we suddenly learn to see and even become haunted by, because she looks at them with the same democratic respect, curiosity and love.

Jane's work is immediately recognisable, particularly her penetrating portraits taken over the past 50 years.

By 1980 she was renowned enough for the National Portrait Gallery to hold a one-person exhibition of her work and there have been no fewer than seven published collections of her photographs.

Jane's approach to taking photographs is as refreshingly unpretentious as she is herself - she works quickly and discreetly, using only available light, usually in black and white and without any assistants. In 1985 she was awarded an MBE. When asked by the Queen what she did, Jane's characteristically modest reply was, "I'm a hack".