ACC Art Books spell New York: High Life, Low Life of Dafydd Jones
If there was ever a time when you could get away with a little trouble, it was New York in the 1990s. As Graydon Carter says: “That New York was the New York of new money trying to attract the attention of old money and Wall Street vampires who plundered the accounts of widows and orphans while their wives dined on dumplings and salads (with vinaigrette on the side) at places like La Grenouille and Le Cirque. .
After photographing Oxford and London’s regal, preppy upper class, Dafydd Jones set his sights on a new playground: New York. His new book, which follows the critically acclaimed works Oxford: The Last Hurray And England: The Last Hurrahis titled New York: High Life, Low Life (ACC Art Books).
“In England I had become too well known as a Tatler photographer. It was wonderful to be invisible again.” –Dafydd Jones
Hired by Vanity Fair to attend the city’s most popular parties, he quickly found himself in a world of human paintings, ladies who lunch, princesses in toilets and dachshunds fighting around sofas. Photographing President (then Senator) Joe Biden, Kate Moss and Johnny Depp, Leona Helmsley, Brooke Astor, Donald and Ivana Trump, Oprah Winfrey, Anna Wintour, Joan Rivers, Naomi Campbell, Robert Mapplethorpe, Michael Milken, Arnold Schwarzenegger , and many more as they celebrated, cried, and unraveled under the bright lights.
In these pages, Dafydd reveals the history of New York, the highs and the lows, as the ’90s unfolded before his expert lens.
Dafydd Jones (born 1956) grew up in Oxford and began working for the Bodleian Library at the age of 16. His photos from Oxford University “Bright Young Things” launched his career. With work published in Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New York Observer, The Sunday Telegraph, The Times, Independent and Oldie, his photographs are held in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery and the Hyman Collection of British Photography, London; the Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol; the Opsis Foundation, New York; and the Yale Museum of British Art, New Haven.
Dafydd Jones: New York: High Life, Low Life
Publisher: ACC Art Books
Pages: 120 pages
Illustrations: 160 in black and white
ISBN: 9781788842556
Size: 7.48 inches x 9.06 inches
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