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An associate member of Magnum since 1966, Jones Griffiths became a full member in 1971. In 1973, he covered the Yom Kippur War, then worked in Cambodia between 1973 and 1975. In 1977, he covered Asia from his base in Thailand. In 1980, he moved to New York to assume the presidency of Magnum, a post he held for a record five years.
Jones Griffiths was born in Rhuddlan in Denbighshire, North Wales, to Joseph Griffiths, who supervised the local trucking service of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, and Catherine Jones, Rhuddlan's district nurse, who ran a small maternity clinic at home. [1] The couple had three sons, of whom Philip was the eldest.
To Griffiths, Vietnam was another country where “a mechanised monster had despoiled an innocent landscape”. He related it to Goya’s etchings in The Disasters of War; indeed, his hero Henri Cartier-Bresson – the man whose picture had first inspired the 16-year-old Jones Griffiths at the Rhyl camera club – later wrote: “Not since Goya has anyone portrayed war like Philip Jones ...
Mar 22, 2008 · Jones Griffiths gained a place at Liverpool University to study pharmacy, but the photography bug had bitten hard. By the mid 1950s, he was producing work for The Manchester Guardian and Granada ...
Mar 19, 2008 · Philip Jones Griffiths. (18 February 1936 – 19 March 2008) An exhibition celebrating the life and work of one of the great documentary photographers of recent times, Philip Jones Griffiths was held at the National Library of Wales between 27 June 2015 - 12 December 2015. He became renowned for his incisive and conscience-driven photographs ...
Philip Jones Griffiths died at home in West London on 19th March 2008 From en.wikipedia.org Jones Griffiths was born in Rhuddlan, to Joseph Griffiths, who supervised the local trucking service of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, and Catherine Jones, Rhuddlan's district nurse, who ran a small maternity clinic at home.
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Jan 19, 2009 · Jones Griffiths was a political being and his best work combines emotion with political issues. Born in the Welsh town of Rhuddlan in 1935, he remained an ardent socialist and Welsh nationalist ...
