Groundbreaking female photojournalist Jane Bown to be celebrated in new exhibition at Proud Galleries

Photographs by Jane Bown, an acclaimed female photojournalist who became a pioneer in a male dominated industry, are going on display in a new exhibition.

Proud Central will display the last remaining vintage prints hand-signed by the photographer, who captured both celebrity culture and post-war austerity in a changing twentieth century Britain.

Images on display by The Observer photographer will feature the likes of Mick Jagger, Samuel Beckett and Sinead O’Connor, as well as previously unseen photographs of The Beatles.

Björk, another of her high profile subjects, once said of Bown, “She can look at a person and she knows, instinctively, straight away, who they are. She’s bullet-proof!"

Among these cultural juggernauts, Proud Central will also display Bown’s images of ordinary life, with photographs capturing pensioners protesting Margaret Thatcher, women heading to Women’s Liberation marches and children playing amid vandalised trams.

For her candid approach to capturing her subjects, Bown is frequently named alongside the likes of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank as a great of photojournalism.

Jane Bown: The Observer will run at Proud Central from June 28 - August 12 2018. For more information visit proudonline.co.uk