Still Life of Leeks, Charles Jones, 1895 - 1910

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© erven Charles Jones

Until a suitcase full of photographs surfaced at a London jumble sale in 1981 the Englishman Charles Jones was an unknown entity in the history of photography. A gardener by occupation, he took photographs of the vegetables, fruit, and flowers he grew himself in a direct, unadorned manner that was singularly modern around 1900.