The news ofQueen Elizabeth’s death came with a stunning photograph.
After the Queendied at age 96on Thursday, the palace shared theannouncementof her passing on Twitter and Instagram with a stunning black-and-white portrait oflongest-reigning British monarch, taken more than 15 years ago as she celebrated a major milestone.
“The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon,” the statement read. “The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.”
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The image was also featured in the Royal Collection Trust’s exhibitThe Queen: 60 Photographs for 60 Yearscelebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012.Queen Elizabethwas only the second British monarch to reach that anniversary, following her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria (1837 – 1901), who celebrated her own Diamond Jubilee in 1897.
Royal Collection Trust recognized Bown for her “unpretentious technique, working at speed, using only available light, and for working in black and white rather than color.”
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Bown, who died at age 89 in December 2014, once said, according toThe Independent: “I spent my whole life worrying about time and light. If I had time it was something, but if I had light it was even better.”
She worked taking photos forThe Observersince 1949, and she was awarded an MBE in 1985 and a CBE in 1995, in addition to an honorary fellowship at the Royal Photographic Society in 2000.
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WhenQueen Elizabethcalled her an artist at her 1995 CBE ceremony, Bownresponded: “I am not an artist, I’m just a hack.”
Anannouncementon the royal family’swebsitesawQueen Elizabethat the very beginning of her reign, showing the newly-crowned 27-year-old monarchat her coronationin 1953.
source: people.com
