Dafydd Jones
Piers Gaveston Ball, Park Lane Hotel, 1983
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print
20.32 x 25.4 cms
8 x 10 ins
Series: 1. Exhibition in a Box
10868
Signed on the reverse and inscribed: Hugh Grant Marina Killery Lulu Rivett Carnac (now Mrs Valentine Guinness) Lord Neidpath Catherine Guinness Piers Gaveston Ball, Park Lane Hotel, London, 1983 Dafydd...
Signed on the reverse and inscribed:
Hugh Grant
Marina Killery
Lulu Rivett Carnac (now Mrs Valentine Guinness)
Lord Neidpath
Catherine Guinness
Piers Gaveston Ball, Park Lane Hotel, London, 1983
Dafydd Jones has written of his Piers Gaveston pictures:
"In 1981 I set up in a small studio space in Jericho in Oxford. My plan was to do black and white Hollywood style photographic portraits. The commissions weren't exactly rolling in but at least I was shortlisted for a photography competition the Sunday Times were running.- The subject for the photo essay was - The Return of the Bright Young Things'- .Once I got into one fancy dress party I was invited to another. It was the first time I'd photographed parties. Pointing a camera at someone at crowded party and getting something that isn't banal is difficult . - I wanted to take photographs that recorded the memorable moments and described what was happening. I learnt as I took the pictures.. I lived at the time literally round the corner from Norreys Ave where some of my first Piers Gaveston pictures were taken. My early pictures led to a job and I moved to London as did many of the club members
This was the last Piers Gaveston party I photographed. The Dress code was ' Garden of Earthly Delights' after the painting by Hieronymus Bosch."
Hugh Grant
Marina Killery
Lulu Rivett Carnac (now Mrs Valentine Guinness)
Lord Neidpath
Catherine Guinness
Piers Gaveston Ball, Park Lane Hotel, London, 1983
Dafydd Jones has written of his Piers Gaveston pictures:
"In 1981 I set up in a small studio space in Jericho in Oxford. My plan was to do black and white Hollywood style photographic portraits. The commissions weren't exactly rolling in but at least I was shortlisted for a photography competition the Sunday Times were running.- The subject for the photo essay was - The Return of the Bright Young Things'- .Once I got into one fancy dress party I was invited to another. It was the first time I'd photographed parties. Pointing a camera at someone at crowded party and getting something that isn't banal is difficult . - I wanted to take photographs that recorded the memorable moments and described what was happening. I learnt as I took the pictures.. I lived at the time literally round the corner from Norreys Ave where some of my first Piers Gaveston pictures were taken. My early pictures led to a job and I moved to London as did many of the club members
This was the last Piers Gaveston party I photographed. The Dress code was ' Garden of Earthly Delights' after the painting by Hieronymus Bosch."