Jane Bown: the eye had it

The legacy of a shy, self-effacing and funny woman who worked for the Observer for more than 60 years is an astounding gallery of black and white portraitsJane Bown: a life in photography – in picturesJane Bown remembered: ‘We had fun, didn’t we?’
Jane Bown: the final pictureThere was never any mistaking her, the late great Jane Bown, who died on 21 December at the age of 89, but whose presence lives on in her extraordinary pictures, and in the pages and the spirit of the Observer, her s