{"id":242,"date":"2008-03-19T21:52:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T21:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=242"},"modified":"2008-03-19T21:52:45","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T21:52:45","slug":"phillip-jones-griffiths-1936-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"Phillip Jones Griffiths 1936-2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phillip Jones Griffiths<\/strong> died yesterday at his home in London, aged 72.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

You can read more about him on the Magnum Blog,<\/a> in a short tribute by Stuart Franklin<\/a>, which links to a number of his Magnum features, as well as to an obituary in the New York Times<\/a> by Randy Kennedy. Franklyn quotes his former Magnum colleague of many years, Henri Cartier-Bresson, who was also one of his great photographic inspirations, as writing what is perhaps the best epitaph for him some years ago:<\/p>\n

“not since Goya has anyone portrayed war like Philip Jones Griffiths”<\/em><\/p>\n

Jones Griffiths had been suffering from cancer for some time, but had continued to organise his work and to lecture until very recently – including a talk in London a couple of months ago.<\/p>\n

I posted only this morning about the new Magnum WARS<\/a> set of four features inspired by his work and including him with four of Magnum’s best war photographers of the current generation, and a couple of weeks ago about an interview with him<\/a>, and I’d previously written several times about his work, including a fairly lengthy section in a short online history of war photography.<\/p>\n

He was a man whose photography – and life – always asked questions, didn’t accept the accepted wisdom, the status quo, but as Kennedy’s obit ends, always wanted his photography “to say to say \u0091Why?\u0092”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phillip Jones Griffiths died yesterday at his home in London, aged 72.\u00a0 You can read more about him on the Magnum Blog, in a short tribute by Stuart Franklin, which links to a number of his Magnum features, as well as to an obituary in the New York Times by Randy Kennedy. Franklyn quotes his … Continue reading Phillip Jones Griffiths 1936-2008<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}